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SAN FRANCISCO 5TATL NORMAL SCHOOL 

BULLETIN No. 9 (New Series) 




A C0UR5L OF 5TUDY IN LAN- 
GUAGL FOR LLLMLNTARY 
5CHOOL5 AND HANDBOOK 
TO ACCOMPANY THE CALI- 
FORNIA 5TATL 5LRIL5 TEXT 



By LFFIL BELLE McFADDEN 

Supervisor of the Teaching of Language and Grammar in the 
San Francisco State Normal School. 



SACRAMENTO 
W. W. SHANNON 



Superintendent of State Printing 

1909 



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Copyright, 1904, by Effie Belle McFadden. 
Copyright, 1907, by Effie Belle McFadden. 
Copyright, 1909, by Effie Belle McFadden. 



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CONTENTS. 



Pages. 
PREFACE. 

FIRST GRADE WORK .5-22 

SECOND GRADE WORK •. 24- 43 

THIRD GRADE WORK 44-74 

FOURTPI GRADE WORK 75-103 

FIFTH GRADE WORK 106-119 

SIXTH GRADE WORK . 119-133 

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SEVENTH GRADE WORK 133-143 

EIGHTH GRADE WORK -. 143-154 

APPENDIX ^ 155 

HANDBOOK TO STATE SERIES TEXT, BOOK ONE 157-169 

HANDBOOK TO STATE SERIES TEXT, BOOK TWO 170-172 

INDEX. 



PREFACE. 



It has finally come to pass that the principles upon which existing courses 
of study are founded and methods of teaching based are being openly 
questioned. As teachers become less and less an isolated class and mingle 
more with intelligent citizens who are actually carrying on the work of 
the world, they are beginning to awaken to the fact that many of the notions 
which they have held as self-evident truths are such, nowhere except 
within the walls of the schoolroom. The purpose of this preface is to show 
some common sense principles which may be employed in effective language 
teaching. The author has also attempted to make plain that the tenets 
underlying the majority of the language text-books are merely pedantries 
which would long ago have been discarded by any class of people except 
those who relied upon their ancestors to do their thinking for them. 

Language teaching has long consisted in the learning of a series of 
definitions and rules. While these may he good as pedantic ornaments, yet 
neither case enables a pupil to choose the correct language forms. 

I. Children only learn eorreet written forms by the habit of writing 
them — there is no equivalent for habit. 

Aristotle years ago pointed out that the learning of the definition of 
wealth never made a man wealthy. Pedagogues, who as a class have spent 
their lives learning definitions, should long ago have discovered this simple 
truth by inspection of their own bank accounts. 

If a man secured a book, learned all the rules for guiding and controlling 
an automobile, and had all the terms explained so that he understood them 
thoroughly, then presented himself as a chauffeur, would the owner of the 
machine hear him recite his rules and definitions, and, upon finding him 
letter perfect, send him out to give his wife and children a ride ? Yet this 
same method is the common one now used in teaching language. "A 
sentence is a group of words expressing a complete thought. ' ' the book tells 
the child. "Begin it with a capital letter and close it with a period," and the 
child having learned the definition and rule is expected ever afterwards to 
obey its dictates. Lie is a transitive verb. Its parts are lie, lay, lain. 
Remember this," says the book, "and you will make no mistakes," and yet 
high school graduates, knowing and writing the above statements, give iis 
an illustration : ^Mother laid down to rest yesterday. 

One can go out any day and watch a carpenter mark out and fit two 
boards together at an obtuse angle, but the carpenter knows no definition 
for an obtuse angle. He has learned to do^ the thing and that is what 
counts. A little girl watches her mother as she sits sewing. Soon the child, 

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too, wishes to sew, but her mother does not give her a definition for sewing, 
nor teach her any rules therefor. Instead, she gives her a needle and thread 
and the little girl learns to sew by sewing. 

The definition habit is a relic of the times when examinations were given 
to ascertain how much the children had committed to memory. Grive the 
definition for this, that, and the other was a short, easy form in which to 
send out the questions. Not being familiar with the facts in the case, the 
examiners took it for granted that, if a child knew the definition, he could 
do the thing, and so would be able to write correctly what he was called 
upon to do. 

And it makes no difference how well the definitions and rules are under- 
stood, or how thorough has been the drill upon them, they will never make 
correct writers or speakers. The memorizing of the words of a definition 
is inexpressibly easy as compared with the acquirement of the application. 
Yet the schools have ever stopped short with definition and rule learning 
upon the silly assumption that their task has been completed, whereas it 
has never even been begun. Therefore, since the only thing of value is 
the doing of the thing itself, let us commence with teaching the doing, and 
the matter of definitions, if necessary in the pedagogic conscience, may 
follow afterwards where there is time for frivolous adornment. 

A few illustrations from the teaching of language may serve to make the 
point clearer. The contracted forms of various words like / am and do not 
are to be taught. The children are not asked to learn the rule that ih.Q 
apostrophe must be used to denote a letter or letters omitted, but instead 
are given the actual contraction to learn, just as they would any spelling 
lesson. This being accomplished, sentences containing these contractions 
are written, followed by dictation paragraphs and compositions. 

Yet again, we teachers have the notion that if a pupil continually sees 
the apostrophe and s added to show possession, and if he says often enough 
that it must be added, he will somehow or other do it. Experience proves 
the contrary. In certain forms, of which the possessive sign is a good 
example, mistakes are not made except in writing, hence any exercise or 
device that requires anything but written work is time thrown away. 

Within these pages will be found many sentences, paragraphs and other 
devices for written work on written forms. The application to composition, 
which is the essential feature, will be found in a separate Bulletin. 

While the attempt to teach language through definitions and rules is 
the most profitless practice of pedagogy, yet it is not the only one. With 
an impatience for the child to know a multitude of things at once, so many 
new forms are introduced at a time that the whole thing becomes a mean- 
ingless series of words. This is essentially wrong. 

II. Only one new form should be presented at a time. 

This necessitates very carefully graded sentences and paragraphs, instead 
of extracts from the masterpieces or lessons based on nature study, geog- 
raphy, etc. 

Most books, within the knowledge of the writer, for grades beyond the 
Second, contain at once directions for writing, which if fulfilled would 

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bring in forms that belong only in the grammar grades, and indeed many 
are used sparingly in the high school age. 

Onr present State text in its first few lessons for a Third Grade uses 
sentences that require a class to be familiar with the capital letter for the 
beginning of the first word of a line of poetry ; the contraction for amid, 
never, there is; a comma to separate a clause out of its natural order from 
the rest of the sentence ; commas to set off a nonrestrictive clause, etc. This 
is clearly impossible. 

This course of study offers a graded series of exercises, each containing, 
besides one new form introduced, a review of the previous forms. Para- 
graphs for dictation occur with headings denoting exactly what forms are 
reviewed, as : This paragraph contains capital letters for the names of the 
days of the week, months of the year, and holidays ; a date ; three contracted 
forms ; and nouns showing ownership. 

• III. Children learn coppeet language forms by correcting the errors 
of themselves or others.. 

The author is quite familiar with the pedantic saw now frequently put 
forth as an emblem of modern psychological erudition which says: "Never 
permit a child to see or hear an incorrect form. The children are drilled 
every day in the schoolroom to say, I satv it, It is I, or I have no. If an 
error in speech is made, no attention is directed toward it for fear some 
child who hadn't noticed might probably become guilty of the same error. 
After the erring child has forgotten his wicked words, the teacher calls him 
to one side, and without any reference to the error puts him through various 
drills on It is 1. The child knows not why, but it takes it all as part of the 
day's work. 

If he misspells a word at the board it is quickly erased. An omitted 
period is as quickly added. The teacher burns midnight oil and wastes the 
city's ink blotting out the errors on his spelling paper. She never returns 
a composition nor marks a language paper, for fear that he might be 
impressed with his own errors. 

If the above maxim were really true, how is it that children have ever 
learned to speak at all? The baby's first attempt at words is wholly unin- 
telligible to any one, even to the mother. He very often can not say at all 
his s's or k's. Yet he is not discouraged from talking on this account. How 
does he learn that there are certain places where he must not go, certain 
things he must not touch, that lying and stealing are not conducive to 
social safety and well-being, unless he is told that they are wrong? 

Teachers are perhaps the most critical people with regard to correct 
English and there isn't a class that sees and hears as many errors per day 
as they. They are having it continually forced upon their attention that 
this is wrong and that is right, and some how they become peculiarly sensi- 
tive to errors. 

Isn't it possible that this same method will work with younger people? 

The child in the schoolroom says I saw it, J have done it, etc., because 
he has learned them there and associates them with schoolroom work. The 

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same child in the yard says I seen it, I have did it, for he has learned them 
in the school yard and thinks them proper expressions for the yard. How 
should he know that they are wrong since the knowledge that they are incor- 
rect has been carefully withheld from him ? 

A small boy who was considered the model language student of the class 
was one day seen by his teacher at play on the street. His language there 
was a marvel of errors and slang. The teacher could stand it no longer. 
"Why "do you say ain't got and have saw here, when you never do in the 
schoolroom?" "Why isn't it right?" asked the child. "All the fellows 
say it here. " Like the baseball enthusiast, he has one language for the game 
and quite another for the parlor. 

The errors commonly made are not so many, but the children may learn 
at least that they are errors. When this has been accomplished he is at 
least started on the road toward eradication. 

It, of course, does not follow that we should, as the old Goold Brown 
grammar did, insert a complete inventory of incorrect language forms, — • 
possible, probable, and current. If the errors are not current, then there 
may be justification for the maxim. But for that class of errors which are 
in such common use that every one hears them constantly there need be no 
fear in catching them and branding them, severally and separately, as 
wrong. 

The first lesson in this book, and, in fact, the first lesson for each grade 
to use for daily work is an exercise in which the children correct errors 
that have crept into their speech before entering school. The teacher 
gives the incorrect form and says that it is incorrect, then gives the correct 
form. It is felt that this daily practice in correcting common errors will 
so impress the children that they will at least recognize that certain forms 
are wrong, and experience has demonstrated that the constant association 
of the correct form with the knowledge of the incorrect one eventually 
leads the child to flee from the evil and accept the good. Directions will 
be found also for making the first part of the daily written lesson a correc- 
tion of the errors of the preceding day. 

When drills fitted to forming correct habits have been substituted • for 
the oldtime definition and rule, when forms suited to the needs of the 
child have been introduced one at a time, when his daily errors have been 
corrected as they occur, the goal is not yet reached. It is not sufficient to 
learn a thing well once. 

IV. A system of reviews must oeeur systematically in ordep to fix 
what has already been learned. 

It very often happens when children have a different teacher upon enter- 
ing a higher grade that some fact learned in the lower grade comes up and 
the children fail on it. 

The teacher of the lower grade is amazed and says, ' ' Well, I taught it to 
them and they knew it, ' ' and the accusing teacher fears for the soul of such 
an untruthful person. The fact is true, however, that the lesson was 
taught, and no doubt well taught, and the children knew it once, but that 
does not mean for always. There must be reviews and many of them. The 

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interval between the reviews must be short, at first, getting longer little by 
little, until at last the children are living in real life where use will deter^ 
mine how much shall be remembered. 

V. The teaching- of the various language forms must be speeifle to 

the errors we undertake to correct. The notion of a cure- 
all is equally absurd in education as in medicine. 

Throughout this course of study the drills which are employed are 
effective, to any practical degree, only to those errors to which they are 
applied. General "eye training," general "ear training," and all the 
other generalities belong to the kind of popular pedantries that grew out 
of faculty psychology. It is, of course, true that the eye is trained by 
drawing, but the product is specific to the special form of drawing upon 
which the training is given. No one except a pedant Could suppose that 
an eye trained to note accuracies or inaccuracies in drawing would by this 
training be materially aided in noting omitted periods, misspelled words, 
forgotten apostrophes, or misused capitals. That the ear can be trained 
to detect the least discord in music is doubtless true, but this same training 
can not be used to prevent the use of "I havn't got no pencil." 

A tea-taster does not taste coffee in order to become an expert tea-taster; 
no sane man commits street car signs to memory to help him remember 
the names and faces of the people he meets, a sheriff does not take lessons 
in water color before going along a mountain road to look for a criminal; 
nor does a piano tuner listen to the sound of the sad sea waves to learn 
his business. So, also, in a finer sense, we must not expect to get rid of 
disagreeing subjects and predicates by training the eye and ear upon com- 
parison of adjectives or right use of pronouns. Each error must receive its 
specific drill, and such work this course of study undertakes to carry out. 

VI. Each type of composition requires speeifle drill in this type and 

one kind of exercise will not sufflee for all kinds of composition. 

Many teachers have had the experience of preparing a class for examina- 
tion, of being morally certain that the class was well informed on the subject 
in question, and then to have that class fail utterly when the test came. 
A reason is always in order, and it usually is the timeworn one of nervous- 
ness, when in reality it is quite another. The teacher prepared her class 
orally, thinking that what they had said so many times they could write. 
The result showed her error. Or, perhaps, she drilled them by means of 
written c^uestions and answers. The test came asking for discussion. The 
children knew the content thoroughly, but they had never been trained to 
organize their material in this form, and hence failure was the outcome. 

A newspaper reporter whose training has enabled him to write up the 
market reports, suddenly determines to take up another line and finds him- 
self at a garden party, and his account usually goes into the waste paper 
basket. . In the same way the story writer who attempts to do the telegraphic 
reports has his articles so cut, if they are accepted at all, that the author 
himself would not recognize them. 

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Should we expect more of children? .If the composition teaching is to 
be of any value, training must be given in every line that will be necessary 
for him to apply in school or that will be used by a person in the ordinary 
walks of life. 

Many attempts have also been made to give children correct English 
through the teaching of word analysis, Latin, interpretation, and so on. 
Paragraphs from the prose classics and stanzas from the poets have been 
used for dictation, many of which are too often beyond the child's compre- 
hension, and all of which contain a phraseology far more involved than 
any that will ever be used by the majority of children. 

No such means have here been employed. The author believes that if 
the child is to learn the forms of the English language, he will do so by 
writing the forms of the English language specific to the purpose he 
wishes to employ them for. 

There is a feeling also that all forms within the covers of the largest 
book should be taught to children in the elementary school. Like the 
contents of the Bible, all language forms are sacred. To teach some and 
not others would be heresy. And those few rules that are omitted, might 
not some one of the forty children some day have occasion to use them? 

Therefore children are drilled with just as much care to begin the first line 
of poetry with a capital, to choose between consonant to or consonant with, 
and to write essays, as they are to begin a sentence with a capital, to choose 
between their and there, or to write a letter to a friend. Some forms are 
used over and over again in the schoolroom, only to be forgotten later, 
because they are never used outside. How fortunate that we can forget ! 

In preparing this work, Miss Louise Carlson and Miss Nettie B. Duncan, 
assistant supervisors in the teaching of Language, have rendered invaluable 
assistance. 

Thanks are also due Miss Ethel Smith, assistant supervisor of Composi- 
tion, and the student teachers for their assistance in writing the stories for 
dictation. 

EFFIE B. McFADDEN. 

State Normal School at San Francisco. 
June, 1909. 



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METHOD OF TEACHING LANGUAGE AND HAND- 
BOOK TO STATE SERIES TEXTS. 



FIRST GRADE, 



DAILY DRILLS. 

While this Bulletin contains much material worked out at length, the 
author feels that a few drills given every day will help more toward acquir- 
ing correct forms than the study of too many details. The exercises should 
be given daily. In a country school they may be given to all the classes 
at once. The teacher gives the incorrect form, the children responding in 
concert with the correct form. After they have become fairly proficient, 
vary the exercise by having the children respond individually. Sides may 
be arranged and the sentences responded to, first by one side and then by 
the other. 

The second exercise consists in answering the cpiestions correctly. As soon 
as the children have learned to do independent work, these questions may be 
written on the board and answered in writing. The responses in the first 
exercise may also be given in writing if the teacher has the time. 



Daily Drills 

Teacher. 
I seen a man. 
He eat some candy. 
I come to school yesterday. 
She drunk a glass of water. 
I done my lessons. 
I ain't got no chalk. 
It is me. 
It was them. 
It was him. 
It was her. 

There is two books on the desk. 
There was two apples on the table 
I have saw a man. 
They haven't came yet. 
I have rode to school every day. 
They have went away. 
I have drank some milk. 



— First Grade. 

Pupil. 
I saw a man. 
He ate some candy. 
I came to school yesterday. 
She drank a glass of water. 
I did my lessons. 
I have no chalk. 
It is I. 
It was they. 
It was he. 
It was she. 

There are two books on the desk. 
There were two apples on the table. 
I have seen a man. 
They haven't come yet. 
I have ridden to school every day. 
They have gone away. 
I have drunk some milk. 



What did you see this morning? 
What did you eat for breakfast? 
Did you come to school yesterday. 
What did you drink this morning? 
Did you do your work? 
Who is knocking at the door? 
Who took my book? 
Who was talking? 
What are there on the desk? 
Were there two apples on the table? 
What have you seen to-day? 
Have they gone away? 



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I saw a horse this morning. 

I ate some mush for breakfast. 

Yes, I came to school yesterday. 

I drank some milk this morning. 

Yes, I did my work. 

It is they. 

It was he. 

I. 

There are two books on the desk. 

There were two apples on the table. 

I have seen a horse to-day. 

They have gone away. 



VERBS. 

Purpose and Method. — The purpose of the work is to teach the child to 
use, as an unconscious habit, the past tense of various verbs. Those selected 
are the ones in most constant use every day. 

The idea is to get the attention of the child first upon the form of the 
word used in its proper setting, and then, by repetition, so to fix that form 
that when the condition again arises he will, without stopping to think, use 
the proper form. 

For the general method followed, see Introduction. 

DEVICES FOR TEACHING "SAW." 

1. Go to the window and, looking out, say, loud enough for all to hear, 
"I see a man with an umbrella. I see a bird building a nest. Come here, 
John, and tell me what you see." Then go back to the desk and say, "I 
saw a car out there. I saw a boy out there," emphasizing saw. "Tell me 
what you saw, John." Send as many as you have time for, having them 
return to their seats and say, "I saw a . " 

2. Put a number of objects on the table, such as a knife, toy sheep, dog, 
doll, cup, apple, etc. Say to the class, ' ' I see a pencil. I see a doll. ' ' Call 
on the children to look and tell what they see. Afterwards cover the 
objects, saying, "I saw a pencil. I saw a doll. Tell me what you saw." 

3. Hold up a picture before the class, saying, "I see a girl standing by 
her mother. Look now." Then, turning it around, say, "Now, tell me what 
you saw. ' ' 

4. Begin with the first child in the row, saying, "At the park yesterday 
I saw many children. Tell me what you saw. ' ' Have the children rise, one 
after the other, telling what they saw. To the next row say, ' ' At the Chutes 
I saw the monkeys. Tell me what you saw. ' ' In the same way use : 

At the grocery On the bay. In the parlor. On the sand-table. 

stoi'e. In the school yard. In the garden. On the shelf. 

On the street. At home. In the aquarium. At church. 

5. Tell me w^hat you saw the children doing in school ; on the playground ; 
on the way to school ; at the park. Tell me what you saw the fish doing ; the 
frogs, etc. 

6. Tell the following story, having it reproduced and added to : 

There was once a little bird. He came out of a tiny blue egg in a nest in the top of 
a tall tree. At first he was very, very small. He grew and grew. Soon he was old 
enough to fly. He said, "Mama, I am going to fly away. I wish to see all the beautiful 
things about me." So away he flew. He was gone a long time. At last he came back. 
His mama said, "Tell me, my child, what you saw." "I saw some funny animals 
playing with a round thing." "Oh, those were boys playing ball," said the mother-bird. 
"I saw some queer wooden nests." "Those were people's houses," said the mother. "I 
saw some pretty flowers growing on the hill. I saw some frogs in swimming in a big 
pond." Then his mother said, "You have seen so much to-day you may fly away again 
to-morrow." 

The Mama Duck. 
One day John went out to shoot ducks. He saw one on a rock. He raised 
his gun to shoot the duck. He saw her pulling out her feathers. She wanted 
to make her nest warm for the little ones. John did not shoot her. 

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WENT. 

1. Call three children to the desk, whisper to them three different places 
to go, then count three and have them all go at once. ■ This gets the attention 
of the class and lends interest. "Who can tell where each one went?" 
Have four or five try the next time, and so on as long as the interest lasts. 

2. Have a game of store. The children go to the store one by one. Each 
child says, ' ' I wish to buy a doll, ' ' etc. After he has gone to his seat he may 
say, "I went to the store. I saw a kite "; or, " I went to the store. I saw 

some apples. ' ' 

3. Tell where you went after school ; Sunday ; Christmas ; Saturday ; etc. 

4. Tell where mama went to buy meat ; to buy bread ; to buy sugar, etc. 

5. Give the nursery rhyme, "Old Mother Hubbard," or if the children 
already know it, have it recited. 

Devices for Review. 

[The best results are obtained if, before introducing a new word, the previous words 
are reviewed. Devices for review will be found before every word.] 

1. Have a child go to the window, look out, and after he has returned to 
his desk, say, "I went to the window. I saw a house." In the same way 
the children may go to the stove, to the door, to the desk, cabinet, toy box, 
etc. To vary the exercise have one child perform the act, another tell what 
he did and what he thinks was seen ; as, "John went to the window. I think 
he saw a street-car. ' ' 

2. Say to the class, "Yesterday I went to the park. I saw the squirrels." 
Have the children tell one place where they went and one thing which they 
saw. 

Pussy and the Cream. 
One day pussy went into the dining-room before breakfast. She saw a 
tall jug of cream on the table. She jumped on the table, but she could not 
reach the cream with her tongue. Pussy was afraid to upset the jug. She 
stuck in her paw and then licked the cream from it. Pussy did this till 
there was no more cream in the jug. 

ATE. 

1. "For breakfast this morning I ate some toast. I ate some meat. Tell 
me what you ate. ' ' 

Tell me what you ate for lunch. Tell me what the cow ate. 

Tell me what you ate for dinner. Tell me what the frog ate. 

Tell me what your dog ate. Tell me what the silkworms ate. 

Tell me what your kitty ate. Tell me what you ate at the picnic. 

Tell me what the horse ate. Tell me what you ate at the birthday party. 

Stories. 

2. One day May gave a party. All her little friends came. They played 
games until six o'clock. Then they had dinner. They ate candy and nuts 
They ate nice chocolate cake. May's mama brought in some pink ice cream. 

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Each one ate a large dish of this. When they went home, they told their 
mothers about the good time they had and what they ate. 

3. One day Miss Brown took her class to the park. The children played 
for some time. Then they ate their lunch. They ate cake. They ate candy. 
They ate oranges, and apples, too. Some of the lunch was left. Then they 
went up to the lake. They saw the pretty white ducks. Miss Brown said, 
"Let us give the ducks something to eat." The children threiv some cake 
into the water. Some of the ducks ate the cake. Then they threiv some 
bread into the water. All the ducks liked the bread. They ate it all. Miss 
Brown threw some grapes into the water. The clucks ate the grap&s, and 
then swam awaj^ Then the children went home. 

Devices for Review. 

saw went ate 

1. To one row say, "I saw some birds at the park. Tell me what you 
saw." The children rise in turns, each telling what he saw. The next row 
may answer to: "Tell me where you went Saturday"; the third row to: 
' ' Tell me Avhat you ate for lunch, ' ' etc. 

2. The children may play that they went to the candy store. Tell me 
where you went, what you saw, what you ate. This may be varied by going 
to visit a little friend, by going to grandma's, etc. 

3. Cut from the advertising pages of magazines, pictures of things to 
eat, things that may be seen in grocery stores, at the park, on the street. 
Paste these on cards, pass them around to the children, and have stories 
made ; as. I went to a grocery store. I saw many cans of soup. 

Encourage the children to finish the story. "We ate some soup for 
dinner. ' ' 

4. If the children recognize these words, they may be placed on the 

board. The teacher may begin a story. The children add sentences as 

the teacher points out the words: 

Once there was a little boj' named Ned. He liked to go with his father. One day he 
went with him to the country. Mama put a nice lunch for them into a box. His father 
let Ned drive. 

When they got there what do you think Ned saw? Tell me what you 
think they ate for lunch. 

5. ' ' One day I went down town. I went into the toy store. I went over 
to the table where they kept my favorite toys. ' ' Tell me what you think I 
saw on the table. Tell me where I went next. Tell me what I saw there. 
Now tell me where you went and what you saw. 

' ' I was so tired that I went to get something to eat. ' ' Tell me what you 
think I ate. 

Have the children make up stories of their own — stories of only a few 
sentences, or as many as they can — using went, saiv, and ate, if possible. 



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CAME. 

1. Stand by the window, and have a child come to yon. As he stands 
by yon, tell him to say, so the other children can hear, "I came to yon at 
the window," accenting came. Have another child come to you at the 
stove, and say, "I came to yon at the stove." Usually two or three times 
telling them will suffice, at least for the brighter ones, and the others will 
imitate them. After standing in several places yourself, give your place to 
a child, and have him say, "I came to Willie at the door." 

2. "I'm glad you came to school this morning." Tell me on what street 
you came and with whom you came. Tell me whether you came early or 
late. Tell me what games you played before you came to school. Tell me 
how you helped your mother before you came to school. Tell me what you 
did after you came to school. 

3. Play that you came from different places. I came from Oakland. Mr. 
Jones came from Berkeley. John came from the country. Tell me where 
you came from. 

4. Review all the verbs studied so far by calling for sentences from each 
row. One row may answer to, "Tell me what you ate for breakfast"; 
another, "What you saw in the toy store"; another, "How you came to 
school this morning," "Where you went last night," etc. 

5. Tell "Eeynard the Fox," by E. Louise -Smj^he ; adapted: 

The lion was king of all the animals. One clay the king gave a party. He wanted 
all the animals to come to it. The wolf, the bear, and nearly all the other animals came. 
Even the birds came. One animal did not come. That was Reynard ,the Fox. 

The wolf came up to the king. He said, "O king, you wanted us all to come to your 
party. We are all here but one. That one is Reynard the Fox. He never does what 
you tell him to do. He has been very mean to me. He came to my house. He put dirt 
into my babies' eyes. And now they can not see. Look at them." 

Then little Fido came up to the king. He was a pretty little dog. He said, "O king, 
let me tell you what Reynard did to me. We are all afraid of him. One day I went out 
for a walk. I came to a mill. I ^aw some meat there, and I took it. It was all I had 
to eat, and I was very hungry. But Reynard took it away from me. It was not his. 
It was mine, and it was all I had." 

Devices for Review. 

saw went ate came 

1. Call a child to you, whisper to him which word to act out, and how to 
do it; then the child may do so, while the others tell, in good sentences, 
what was done. In acting out came, the child must come to the teacher 
and he himself must be called upon to tell what he did; as, "I came to 
you." Otherwise it would be, "Tom went to you." 

2. This device may be used in reviewing any verb. It is especially 
useful in teaching the' form "I didn't"; as, I didn't go, I didn't eat the 
apple ; or. Yes, I went ; Yes, I ate the apple. 

A child is* sent from the room, knowing that another one will be appointed 
to go somewhere or do something. When the child returns he asks, "Elsie, 
did you go to the window?" and Elsie replies, "I didn't go to the window," 
or, "I went to the window, ' ' as the case may be. 

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In a large class it is well to limit the child to four or five guesses. Then 
more children will have an opportunity to ask the questions. 

Story. 
Gog was an elephant. He was very smart. He could open any door and 
close it after him. His master was very proud of him. One day a friend 
gave Gog 's master some fine apples. He put them in his room to keep them 
until night. But Gog opened the door, went in, and closed it quietly after 
him. He ate all the apples. Then he went out again. When Gog 's master 
came he could not find the apples. In the morning he saw some apple-cores 
in Gog's stable. He knew who ate the apples. 



BROUGHT. 

1. Draw on the board the picture of an old man with a big pack on his 

back. Tell them this story: 

Once there was a man living all by himself. It was very near Christmas, but he had 
no children to give any presents to. Finally he thought of a plan. He went to the city 
and bought a great many toys. He did them all up in a pack. Now he is on his way to 
visit all the children in the village. He brought a nice new crutch to a lame boy. He 
brought a knife to a little boy. He brought a doll to a little girl. 

You may tell me what else he brought in the pack to the children. 

2. Have each child in a front seat bring you something from his desk. 
The other children tell what was brought. 

3. Use the same cards as for "ate." Play that you are having a birth- 
day party. Each child brings you something. As he 'brings it he says: "I 
came to your birthday party. I brought you a basket." The children 
enjoy this very much, and politeness may be taught incidentally. If the 
teacher is gracious when she receives the presents, a child will imitate her, 
if he is allowed to have a party instead of the teacher. 

4. Tell me what the bird brought to build her nest. (Mud, strings, 
feathers, cotton, thistle-down, etc., may be mentioned.) Tell me what you 
brought to school. Tell me what the postman brought; the groceryman. 
Tell me what the fruitman brought you. Tell me what Santa Glaus brought 
you Christmas. 

5. Story for reproduction : 

Some children built a sand fort. John brought the damp sand in buckets, while Fred 
built the fort. The little brother, Tom, brought as many firecrackers as his hands would 
hold. Soon papa came and brought the matches. He lighted the, firecrackers, and the 
fort was blown to pieces. Then the boys brought more sand and made another one. 
They thought it great fun. 

Stoey. 

Alice was a poor little girl. She lived in a little house in the woods. One 
day her mother went out. She left Alice alone. Alice fell asleep. She 
dreamed that she saw a fairy. The fairy said, "My child, what do you 
.wish?" 

"I wish to have some pretty clothes and playthings," said Alice. 

' ' You may have them, ' ' said the fairy. Then she went away. 

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In a few minutes she came back. She brought with her a beautiful dress. 
She brought a big doll, she brought some marbles, she brought some books, 
she brought a ring, and she brought a big box of candy. 

-Oh, how happy I am," said the little girl. ''Thank you, thank you, 
kind fairy. ' ' 

Review. 

Tell the story; ask the questions following it, having them answered in 
good sentences, and then have it reproduced : 

This morning my uncle came to see me. He came in a nice little buggy, driving a 
black pony "I am after a little boy who would like a ride," said my uncle. Mama said 
I could go and I was so happy. We drove about town, then we went out to the park. 
On the way I saw a little boy who sits near me at school. Uncle let him ride, too. He 
brou-ht his dog with him. The dog was a little one and had to run fast to keep up. 
When we came to the children's playground, we went in to lunch. My uncle ate sand- 
wiches and drank cofPee, but we boys drank milk. After lunch we went to the lake. 
There we saw boys sailing small boats. One boat came near us and then upset. We saw 
ducks swimming in the lake, too. It was nearly dark when we got home, but we had 
had a very pleasant day. 

Questions: Who came to see you? He came in what? Tell me where 
you went. On the way whom did you see? The boy brought with him, 
what? Tell me what you ate for lunch. Tell me where you went after 
lunch. "What did you see? 



CAUGHT— THREW. 

1. Have a bean-bag. Call out several children, having them stand in a 
row. Throw the bean-bag to the first saying, "I threw the bean-bag to 
Elsie. She caught the bean-bag. Now, Elsie, throw it back." "I threw 
the bean-bag to John. He caught the bean-bag. " "Now, who can do just 
as I did?" Have several children take turns in throwing the bag to the 

children in the row, each time saying, "I threw the bean-bag to • 

She caught the bean-bag." As each child in the row throws the bag back, 
she says, ' ' I threw the bean-bag to . She caught it. ' ' 

2. How many played tag at recess? Tell me whom you caught. Tell 
me who caught you. 

3. Tell me what the spider caught; the cat; the frog; the snake; the 
bird. TeU me what we caught on our nature-study trip. 

4. Tell me what you threw away at recess ; at home. Who threw the ball 
over the fence ? Tell me what you threw into the basket, etc. 

5. Tell this story. Ask questions to bring out the verbs, and then have 
the story reproduced: 

May and Tom went to the lake with their mother. Tom took his dog Fido with him, 
and May took her doll. They found an old boat there. Mama sat in one end of the boat 
and read a book. May sat with her and played with the doll. 

Tom wanted to have some fun. He threw a stick into the water and Fido ran after it. 
Then Tom threw another one high in the air. Fido ran as fast as he could, then stopped 
still, and caught the stick in his mouth. "Good dog," said mama. 



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DID. 

1. Say to the class, "We will play a little game. I will leave the room, 
and Helen may tell some one to take a pencil from the desk. When I come 
back, I'll try to find out who did it." (To make it more interesting, keep 
an account of the number of guesses, writing them on the board.) When 
you come back , say, ' ' I think May did it. ' ' May shook her head, so she was 
told to say, "No, I didn't do it." "Then Joe did it," and so on, until the 
child is found who did it. Have him say, "Yes, I did it." After a few 
trials, have a child take your place and call on the different ones : ' ' Mary, 
did you do it ? " 

2. Play that the teacher is an old blind lady. The children do various 
things, such as, pass to the board, write on the board, etc., as they were told, 
by pointing them out. A child stands by, telling each time, ' ' Mary did it, ' ' 
* ' Joe did it, ' ' etc. The children take turns at this. 

3. Say to the class : 

Once two little boys were playing. Joe broke a cup. When their mother came home, 
she asked, "Who did it?" What did Joe say? What did his brother say? 

Three little girls were sewing. One of them was very careful, and did her work 
nicely. The mother asked, "Who did this so well?" What would each little girl say? 

The teacher left the room. Tom threw a piece of chalk. The teacher came back, and 
asked, "Who did it?" What would the boys say? What would Tom say? 

The teacher asked the children to bring some spiders to school. The next day she 
found a jar of spiders on her desk. "Who brought it?" What did the boys say? 

Mama found a nice bouquet of flowers on her table. She asked the children who 
brought it. Who do you think did? 

A little boy fell down in the yard this morning. Another boy picked him up. Who 
do you think did it? 

4. Have several pictures or other things that were brought to you by the 

children. Say to the class : 

Some one brought me this picture. Who do you think did it? 
Some one wrote this paper. Who do you think did it? 
Some one drew this picture. Who do you think did it? 

5. Say to the first row, "Answer my questions, -asing did. Who wrote 
well this morning ? " 

Say to the second line, "Who brought lunch to-day?" "Who played 
marbles this morning ? " " Who played buttons ? ' ' etc. 

6. See device 2 under Device for Review, page 10. 

The Little Red Hen. 

A little red hen found a grain of wheat. ' ' Who will plant this grain of 
wheat?" said the hen. "I won't," said the cat. "I won't," said the rat. 
"I won't," said the pig. "I won't," sai'd the dog. "Then, I will," said 
the little red hen. So she did it. 

Soon the wheat grew up. "Who will cut this wheat?" said the little red 
hen. ' ' I won 't, ' ' said the cat. ' ' I won 't, ' ' said the rat. ' ' I won 't, ' ' said 
the pig. "I won't," said the dog. "Then, I will," said the little red hen. 
So she did it. 

Soon the wheat was ready to take to the mill. ' ' Who will take this wheat 
to the mill ? ' ' said the little red hen. "I won 't, ' ' said the cat. ' ' I won 't, " 

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said the rat. "I won't," said the pig. "I won't," said the dog. "Then, 
I will, ' ' said the little red hen. So she did it. 

When she came back with the flour she said, ''"Who will make a loaf of 
bread?" "I won't," said the cat. "I won't," said the rat. "I won't," 
said the pig. ' ' I won 't, ' ' said the dog. ' * Then, I will, ' ' said the little red 
hen. So she did it. 

When the bread was baked she said, "Who will eat this sweet bread?" 
' ' I will, ' ' said the cat. ' ' I will, ' ' said the rat. ' ' I will, ' ' said the pig. * * I 
will," said the dog. "No, you won't," said the little red hen. "My 
chickens and I will eat this bread. ' ' So they did. 

GAVE. 

1. Have a child bring you something he has in his desk, as a piece of 
paper, a pencil, etc. Say to the class, if you are not sure the child will 
answer properly, "John gave me a paper. Who has something else for 
me ? " " Harry gave me a book. " " Mary gave me a pencil. ' ' The teacher 
may quickly give the children such toys as she may use for her reading 
words. Then they may hold up the toys, showing the class, saying, 
' ' Miss gave me a sheep, " " Miss gave me a boat, ' ' etc. 

2. The teacher may play that she is a little girl, and that each one is to 
give her something for her birthday. The children then bring their toys to 
the desk. After they are seated, the teacher may ask, ' ' Who gave me this ? ' ' 
until all the toys are put away. 

3. The teacher may play that she is a blind lady. Each child brings her 
a" gift. Then she asks, "Who gave this?" the child replying, "May gave 
you the book, ' ' etc. 

Devices for Review. 
went brought gave 

1. Say to the children, "I went to the grocery store. I brought you some 
sugar. The grocer gave me a cookie. ' ' Designate the different parts of the 
room as : baker 's, candy store, toy store, book store, butcher 's, fruit stand. 

^Have the children go to the different places, then come back, telling where 
they went, what they brought back, and what the storekeeper gave them. 

2. Give out cards having pasted upon them various pictures cut from the 
advertising pages of magazines. Have the children make "saw" stories, 
"went" stories, "ate" stories, etc. 

3. One child may take a toy to another whose eyes are closed. The latter 
then tries to guess who brought it, by asking, "Did you bring me this?" 
The children reply, " I 'did it, " or " I didn 't do it. " 

4. The children may hide their eyes while one of the class is chosen to 
draw something on the board. The teacher then appoints a member of the 
class to find to find out who it was by asking, ' ' Who did it. " 

5. The teacher may bring a sack of animal crackers to school. Each 
child may eat one, then tell what he ate ; as, " I ate a cracker-dog, ' ' etc. 

6. A child closes her eyes, while another puts something into her hand. 
Then the first child asks, "Who gave me the pencil?" while another one 

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replies, "John gave you the pencil." It may be varied by the children 
replying, "I did it," or "I didn't do it." 

7. Tell the following story, have it acted out, and then reproduced. Many 
other things may be added to make the story longer : 

Once there was a lady who was very tired. She had many things to do. The dishes 
were not washed. The floor needed sweeping. The table needed dusting. The windows 
needed washing. The lady started to go to the store to buy something to eat. She told 
her children to be good while she was away. When she came back, she found all her 
work done. She said, "Who washed the dishes?" Alice said, "I did it." She then asked, 
"Who swept the floor?" Fred said, "I did it." She then wondered, "Who dusted the 
table?" Mary said, "I did it." "Now tell me," she said, "Who washed the windows?" 
Harry said, "I did it." "You are good children," said the lady, "here is some candy 
for you." 

In the same way the past tense of the following verbs should be taught 
in the First Grade : grow, drink, run, draw, fall, fly, tell, ride, 'build, Mte, 
speak, sell. 

Review every day the verbs, using one or more of the devices, either in 
the presentation lessons, or in the review devices. If there is any time left, 
put in the new exercise, " It is I. " 

The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse. 
saw ran 

A country mouse invited a town mouse to visit him in the country. 
They ate wheat stalks and roots. The town mouse said, **When I was in 
the city I ate raisins and nuts and cheese. Come to the city and I will show 
you. ' ' So the country mouse went to the city. 

They went together into the pantry. There they saw bread, meat, raisins, 
and a nice piece of cheese. They ate a little bread. Just then some one 
opened the door. They ran as fast as they could to a hole. When all was 
quiet, they came back again. They ate a little meat. Some one else opened 
the door. They raw away and hid again. The country mouse said, "You 
may finish your feast alone. I like to live in the country where I can eat in 
peace. ' ' 

The Tortoise. 
saw took * 

A tortoise wished to learn to fly. She asked the eagle to teach her. The 
eagle said, "You can not fly. You have no wings." But the tortoise still 
wanted to try. The eagle took the tortoise in her claws. She flew high 
into the sky. The tortoise saw the houses far below her. Suddenly the 
eagle let the tortoise go. She fell down to the earth. She was killed on 
the rocks. 

The Dog and His Shadow. 

saw 

A dog was once crossing a bridge over a stream. He had a bone in his 

mouth. He looked down into the water. There he saw another dog with 

a larger bone in his mouth. He dropped his own bone to get the larger 

one. He found that it was only a shadow. So he had to go home hungry. 

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The Lion and the Mouse. 

lay ran caught came 

Once a lion lay asleep. A little mouse ran over him. This woke the 
lion and made him very angry. He caught the mouse and was going to 
kill it. The mouse said, "Do not kill me. I will help you some day." 
The lion laughed and let it go. Soon afterwards the lion was caught in a 
net. The little mouse heard him roar. The mouse came up and gnawed 
the ropes with his teeth. He set the lion free. 

The Bear and the Two Travelers. 
came 
Once two men were traveling together. They suddenly met a bear. One 
man quickly climbed a tree. The other one fell on his face. He pretended 
that he was dead. The bear came up. He smelled the man all over. Then 
he left him, for bears do not like dead bodies. Soon the man came down 
from the tree. He asked, "What did the bear tell you?" He told me 
never to travel with a man who leaves you when you are in danger. 

The Dog in the Manger. 

came 

Once a dog lay in a manger. A cow came along to get something to eat. 

The dog barked and growled at the cow. ' ' You are a selfish dog, ' ' said the 

cow. "I came here to get something to eat. You can not eat any hay 

yourself and you will not let any one else eat it." 

Meeko. 

Once there was a little red squirrel named Meeko. He lived in the woods. 
Meeko worked very hard. When the chestnuts fell he picked them up for 
winter. He had a safe place to hide them at the root of a big tree. One 
day a bluejay was on the tree. The bluejay did not like to work. He saw 
Meeko hide the nuts. So when the squirrel ran away for more, the bluejay 
flew down. He ate some nuts. Soon Meeko came back. He saw that some 
of the nuts were gone. He was angry. Meeko hid now. He watched for 
the thief. When the bluejay came again Meeko jumped at him. But the 
bird flew away. Meeko looked for another hiding place for his nuts. He 
put them there and ate them all winter. 

The Ants and the Grasshopper. 
came 
One sunny day some ants were very busy gathering seeds for winter time. 
A grasshopper came along dancing and chirping in the grass. Soon winter 
came. The grasshopper was hungry. He asked the ants for some food. 
The ants said, ' ' What were you doing all summer ? " "I danced and sang, ' ' 
said the grasshopper. "Then you may dance and sing all winter," said 
the ants. 

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A Little Girl's Fairy Story. 
went saw 

One day a little girl was playing in the yard with her kitty when a fairy 
rode by in a cloud. She lifted the little girl up into the cloud and went 
away with her. Soon they came to fairyland, where the little girl saw many 
wonderful things. She saw roses growing wild. She saw beautiful birds. 
She saw lions and lambs playing together. She saw little gray squirrels 
running about. All the animals loved one another. She saw houses made 
of gold and silver. She saw many beautiful fairies. She played there all 
day, and then she went home and told her mother about her visit. 

The Mother Duck and Her Ducklings. 

A pretty duck had made her nest by a pool. She had ten little eggs in 
her nest. They were almost ready to hatch. No rain had fallen for many 
days. The mother duck saw with alarm that the pool was drying up. What 
would the baby ducks do when they came out? They must have water. 
Finally they did come out, but the pool had dried up. They had to walk 
a long distance to the nearest pond. This was very dangerous, as they had 
many enemies. They had to rest many times. They had not gone very far 
when a great marsh hawk appeared. He seized one little duck and carried 
it away. This made the mother duck feel very sad. They struggled on 
till they came to a ' ' cart-trail ' ' in the road. Into the first ' * wheel-rut ' ' fell 
four little ducks. Five managed to scramble across, but the other rut was 
deeper than the first, and they fell into that. The mother did not know 
how to help them. Suddenly she saw her worst enemy coming. It was a 
man. He saw the little ducks. He stooped and gathered them into his hat. 
The poor mother thought her babies would be killed. The man went to the 
edge of the pond and put the ducks into the water. Soon they were all 
swimming. The mother was very happy. Just as they began to eat, they 
saw another duck coming. It was their baby brother. The hawk had 
dropped it over the pond. They were all very happy and lived here many 
years. 

IT IS I— IT WAS I. 

1. Send two or more children from the room, telling one of them to knock 
quietly, and then when asked, "Who is it?" to reply, "It is I." Let them 
have one guess to tell who it is. The one who guessed could go out and do 
the same thing. After the one who knocked comes in, say, "Who was it 
that knocked?" getting in reply, "It was I," or "It was he." Have two 
knock at the same time, telling them to answer, "It was we," and having 
the others tell, * * It was they. ' ' 

2. Say to the children, "I will close my eyes. Some of you may fold 
your arms, some put your hands on your heads, some fold your arms 
behind you, some wave your arms, then when I say ' Attention, ' all sit up. ' ' 
Try to find out who did each thing. A^k, "Was it you who folded your 
arms?" the child replying, "It was I," or "It wasn't I." Then change 
the form of the question, asking, "Was it John who folded his arms?" etc. 

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3. Have a quick exercise, each child in the row answering the question 
as he pleases. 

Is it I? ^ Is it he? Is it she? Is it they? Is it we? 

4. Every day have them repeat in concert, then individually : 



It is I. 


It was I. 


It is she. 


It was she. 


It is you. 


It was you. 


It is we. 


It was we. 


It is he. 


It was he. 


It is they. 


It was they. 



5. Send a child from the room, telling him before he goes that somebody 
will be appointed to be it. The children name some one child, and the 
teacher names the one who is to ask the questions. The child then returns 
to the room. The one who asks the questions stands up and asks, "Is it 
Charlie?" The guesser answers, "No, it isn't he," or "I think it is he." 
Instead of having some one ask the question, the child who left the room 
may ask, "Is it you, Charlie?" Charlie replies, "It isn't I," or "It is I," 
as the case may be. 

I HAVE NO. 

Purpose and Method. — The purpose and method are the same as in 
teaching the verbs. The teacher produces the proper setting, gives the 
form, and has the children imitate her. The attention must be on the 
form at first, and gradually transferred to the subject-matter. 

1. Say to the children, ' ' I have no pencil. Will you please lend me one ? 
Thank you. I have no book. Will you please lend me yours. I have no 
paper. Will you lend me yours? You may answer me, using, I have 
no ." 

Please lend me your sponge. Please lend me your slate, crayon, knife, 
watch, ring, top, doll, looking-glass, marbles, fan, etc. This must be quickly 
and enthusiastically done to be effective. 

2. Be a storekeeper. Have the children guess what kind of a store you 
keep by asking to buy something. The children then say, "I wish to buy 
some bread." The teacher replies, "I have no bread." "I wish to buy 
some candy." "I have no candy." "I wish to buy some sugar." "Yes, 
I have some sugar. ' ' "What kind of a store do I keep ? Yes, it is a grocery 
store. Now you may be storekeeper, and we will buy. Think what kind of 
a store you will keep. ' ' 

3. Fill a box with toys and odds and ends. The children ask for some- 
thing. Eeply first, "I have no doll." Then give the box to a child, and 
the others ask for anything they want. If it is in the box, it is given, other- 
wise the child replies, ' ' I have no . ' ' 

4. Try to find out who has a baby sister, brother, pet kitten, blue dress, 
new knife,' top, fan, etc., by asking quickly, "Have you a baby sister?" etc. 

5. Send the class to the board, with no chalk there, and ask them to write 
a word. If the first one says, ' ' I have no chalk, ' ' ask several if they have 
chalk, insisting on a complete sentence. If any child can not give the 
form, some one may tell him what to say. 

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6. Put cards on several desks about the room, then as you look about, 
say, "Lillie has no card," "John has no card," "Edgar has no card," 
"John, tell me some one in your row who has no card," etc. 

7. "Why can't Lillie lend me her doll, ball, fan?" etc. 

8. Say quickly to the first child in the first row, "I had no mush for 
breakfast; tell me something you didn't have. Begin your sentence with, 
I had no." . 

THIS— THESE. 

1. Have several articles such as pencils, pens, books, marbles, flowers, 
pieces of crayon, etc. Say to the children, Listen carefully to what I 
say and watch me. Then take- a book saying, This book is new ; then a 
pencil saying, This pencil is red, and so on with each article. Then take 
several books saying, These books are new, these pencils are short, these 
flowers are pretty. Who can do just as I did, and say what I said ? Let the 
children try. 

2. Close your eyes and have a child touch one thing or one group of 
things, then open your eyes and try to find out what he touched. Did you 
touch this book ? Did you touch these pieces of crayon ? etc. Have a child 
close his eyes, let some one else touch something and have the child ask 
the question. The child who replies must stand near so he can pick up 
the pencil and say, "No, I didn't touch this pencil." 

THAT— THOSE. 

3. Repeat these two exercises, having the things far enough away so you 
can point to them and can not touch them. Have the children reply in 
concert, "No, he didn't touch that pencil. Yes, he touched those flowers." 

Devices for Review. 

1. Tell stories about a child in your class, as: 

Last night I wished my erasers cleaned. I called upon the boy who had the best 
reading lesson. Who was it? (The child answers, "It was I.") To-day I shall call for 
the child who «an count the farthest. Who is it? (Answer, "It is I.") 

Last night a little baby boy and his sister were walking on the street. The baby fell 
down. The sister picked him up and carried him home. Who was it? 

Every night there is a little boy who brings his mother the milk from the grocery. 
Who is it? 

Who is the little girl who helps her mother wash the dishes? etc. 

2. Send all the children or certain children to the board to draw pictures. 
Hide your eyes, so you do not see to what board they go. Then ask, ' ' Who 
drew this ? ' ' The one who answers, ' ' It was I. ' ' 

3. Use freely device No. 4 under "It is I." 

DOESN'T— DON'T. 

1. This may be taught by a game the children call "What does he do." 
Call up a child. Tell the children that he is a man now and is working 
very hard. They are to find out what he does. The child then tells the 
teacher what occupation he has chosen. The children ask, Does he ham- 

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mer? The teacher replies, ''No, he doesn't hammer." Does he make 
candy? ''No, he doesn't make candy," etc. Have a child take your place 
as soon as possible. To vary the game and give the children more practice, 
have the child chosen to work tell the class what he is doing, while the 
teacher steps outside. Then the teacher may ask. Does he sing^ etc., and 
the whole class reply, "No, he doesn't sing." 

Have two children occupied at the same work. The reply then is, No, 
they don't make dresses. Vary it by having the child play he is an animal. 
The teacher should ask, "Does it bark?" The children should reply, "No, 
it doesn't bark." 

Stories for Review. 

A Poor Boy. 

It was a very cold day. Mr. Brown had finished his work, and was 
going home to supper. As he walked along he thought of the games he 
would play with his three little children. But who was the poor little boy 
sitting by the road? His coat was torn, and he had on no shoes nor 
stockings. Mr. Brown stopped and said, "My boy, why are you not home 
this cold evening?" "I have no home," said the boy. "Where is your 
father? Will he not take care of you?" asked Mr. Brown. "I have no 
father nor mother, ' ' said the boy, ' ' and I am very hungry. ' ' 

Then Mr. Brown asked the poor boy to come home with him. He gave 
him some nice warm supper and a good bed to sleep in. The next day the 
boy went to the office with Mr. Brown, and did errands. He went to night- 
school and studied hard. Now he is a big man, with a home of his own. — 
Original Story hy a Third-grade Boy. 

The Little Pine Tkee. 

A little pine tree was in the woods. It had no leaves. It had needles. 
The little tree said, "I do not like needles. All the other trees in the 
woods have pretty leaves. I want leaves, too. But I will have better leaves. 
I want gold leaves." Night came and the little tree went to sleep. A 
fairy came by and gave it gold leaves. When the little tree woke up, 
it had leaves of gold. It was very happy. 

Night came. A man came by with a bag. He saw the gold leaves. He 
took them all, and put them into his bag. Now, the little tree had no leaves. 
It had no needles, either. The poor little tree cried, "I do not want gold 
leaves again. I wiU have glass leaves. ' ' 

So the little tree went to sleep again. The fairy came by and put glass 
leaves on it. The little tree awoke and saw its glass leaves. Then a wind 
came up. It blew and blew. The glass leaves all fell from the tree, and 
were broken. , 

Again the little tree had no leaves. This time it said, "I want green 
leaves. I want to be like the other trees." And the little tree went to 
sleep. When it awoke it had green leaves. A goat came by. He was 
hungry, and he ate all the leaves. Then the little tree said, "I like my 

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needles best." And the little tree went to sleep. The fairy came and 
gave it what it wanted. When it woke up, it had its needles again. Then 
the little pine tree was happy. — Adapted from Old-time Stories by E. Louise 
Smythe. 

THE SENTENCE. 

Purpose and Method.— One of the first things to be mastered in written 
language is the proper beginning and ending of the sentence. In order 
to do this, the child must first know in some way what a sentence is, and 
then he must have a reflex for putting in the proper punctuation. "We can 
tell a sentence in two ways : First, by noting the inflection of the voice when 
we hear it read ; and, second, by seeing the- beginning and ending. The 
first way can be taught the children before they read or write. 

The method pursued was directing the attention to the voice as sentences 
were read. The sentences must be very short and simple at first, the down- 
ward inflection of the voice pronounced, and the pause between long. On 
account of the difficulty in getting stories made up entirely of simple 
sentences, the following are added: 

1. Say to the children, ''I am going to read you some sentences. You 
may tell me how many I read. I shall stop after each sentence. You may 
count them for me. ' ' Then read, making a long pause after each sentence : 

Saturday I went down town. I looked in a big window. There I saw a beautiful doll. 

' ' How many sentences did I read ? Now listen again. ' ' 
I went into the store. I bought the doll. 

' ' Tell me how many sentences. ' ' 

I gave the doll to my cousin. She named the doll Grace. She was very happy. 

"How many sentences?" 

Eead the same thing again, pausing after four sentences to ask, "How 
many ? " 

Use in the same way: 

I had a very large dog. His name was Carlo. He had pretty, black hair. He sat up 
and begged for a cracker. He liked to go into the woods to catch birds. I threw a stick. 
He ran after it. He brought it back to me. 

Here are two children. Their names are Jack and May. They are wading in the 
water. Mama said they could have some fun. Going in wading is great fun. 

The water is very warm. On the bottom are sand and pebbles. Jack sees a clam on 
the bottom. May screams. She lifts her foot out of the water. A crab has caught her 
toe. Jack pulled the crab off. 

One day an ant fell into the water. He tried to swim out. He could not do it. A 
dove saw the ant. She picked off a leaf. She threw it to the ant. The ant crawled up 
on the leaf. She was carried to the shore. 

The nest day a man was out hunting. He saw the dove. He aimed his gun to shoot 
it. Just then the ant saw the man. She bit his heel. The man was very angry. He 
turned around. The dove flew away. 

2. For another device, use a picture large enough for the whole class 
to see. 

Tell me how many sentences I make about this picture. 
In this picture I see a little girl. She is standing by her mama. 

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"How many sentences? Now, listen again," 

The cat is lying by the fire. I think mama is telling the little girl a story. The little 
girl looks happy. '' 

"How many sentences?" 

Call on tlie children to make one sentence, two sentences, three sen- 
tences, etc. 

3. For a third exercise provide each child with a picture, and call for a 
definite number of sentences, as two, three, etc., according to the ability 
of the children. 

By this time the children should be able to recognize several sentences 
with only a slight pause between. The second step — recognizing a written 
sentence— is then begun. 

4. Go to the board saying, "Now I shall write a sentence on the board," 
and write: See the little girl. 

"What kind of a letter at the beginning? How did I finish it?" 

Have the class give sentences, while the teacher writes on the board. 

As each one is given, ask, ' ' How shall I begin it ? How shall I finish it ? 
Who will write the first word? Who will finish it?" 

After several easy sentences are given, go back over the group, calling 
on different children to show the first sentence. "Where does it begin? 
Where does it end ? What kind of a letter at the beginning ? How do we 
finish it ? " After going through the sentences consecutively, skip about. 

After this, count the number of sentences on certain pages in their 
readers. 

5. A teacher, to vary the exercise, had her children play the sentence. 
Each child represented a word. "What kind of a letter must the first 
word have?" The child suggested standing on the table to be higher, so 
he did. The children stood in a row, one child representing each word, 
and the period, at her own suggestion, sat on the floor. Then each child 
said his word, and the next sentence was played. The teacher allowed them 
to represent the big letter in any way they chose. Then they pointed out 
the beginning and ending of each sentence. The children called for this 
game repeatedly. The teacher closed the lesson by reading a story from 
their reader, allowing them to tell how many sentences. 

THERE ARE. 

Purpose and Method. — There are and there were seem to be the hardest 
reflexes to get. Perhaps more adults make this mistake than any other. 
Much time should be spent on these two forms, as often these two words do 
not appear in the child's vocabulary. 

Be certain that the children say there and not they. 

1. Have a number (two, three, or four) of various objects, such as tops, 
balls, oranges, marbles, etc., on the desk. Say to the class, "There are 
three marbles on my desk. There are two tops on my desk. Who will tell 
me how many oranges there are on my desk?" 

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2. Have a number of pictures with more than one of various objects. 
Pictures of fruit, flowers, or animals are good. Have the children tell how 
many of each are in the picture. 

3. Have a child come to the desk, select any number (more than one) 
she wishes of any object, and hold them up, saying to the class, "There 
are two apples in my hand." 

4. Repeat exercise 3, except that the class do not know the number of 
objects the child takes. They say, ' ' I think there are three nuts in Mary 's 
hand," etc. This may be varied by having the children guess what Mary 
has in her hand; as, "I think there are apples in Mary's hand." 

5. Have the children guess what things there are in your satchel, assur- 
ing them that there is more then one of each. Guess what things there are 
in the desk ; in the bookcase, etc. 

6. Have the children think of things at home in the kitchen that there 
is more than one of. ' ' Tell me how many there are 1 ' ' The parlor, school- 
room, church, etc., may be used in the same way. 

7. The teacher may be a storekeeper and the children may guess what 
things there are in her store. 

THERE WERE. 

PuEPOSE AND Method. — This can be a memory exercise. The attention 
is to be directed toward the objects that have been removed. The same 
method (that is, the teacher making the proper setting and giving the 
form) is used as well as the same devices. 

1. Have a number of each of the different objects on the table. The 
children pass around in line, look at the things and return to their seats. 
The teacher takes the objects away from the table, then says, "There ivere 
apples on the table. There were oranges on the table. Tell me what other 
things there were on the table. ' ' 

2. Pick up various articles, then put them down again. Do this very 
quickly to keep the attention of the children. They tell what there were 
in the teacher's hand. Afterwards a child may take her place. The 
sentence should be given each time the objects are put down. 

3. "Tell me what there were on the street as you came to school this 
morning. Tell me what there were on the table last night ; on the desk 
yesterday ; on the bay last week ; on the Christmas tree last Christmas, ' ' 

4. Hold up a picture with many of the various kinds of objects in it. 
After giving the children a few seconds to look, lay it down and have them 
tell what there were in the picture. 

5. Pass around some pictures cut from a magazine. After the children 
look at the picture, they return it and tell what "there were in the picture. 

6. Use any of the devices under "there are," having it a memory 
exercise so there were may be used. 

7. Have some blocks in the room. Put three down on the desk, saying, 
"There are four cars on the track; two of them were switched off (taking 
two away). Now there are two left." 

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After is and was are given, stories may be made, using ''Then there was 
one left, " or " Now there is one left. ' ' The children are often very original 
in making np these stories. (See First Book in Arithmetic, State Series, 
Chapter XII— Number Stories.) 

THERE IS— THERE WAS. 

The same devices may be used as in teaching there^ are and there were. 
Be certain that there is but one of everything talked about, and that the 
attention of the children is directed toward the one. 



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HIGH FIRST AND SECOND GRADE, OR 
SECOND GRADE. 



DAILY DRILLS, 

While this Bulletin contains much material worked out at length, the 
author feels that a few drills given every day will help more toward acquir- 
ing correct forms than the study of too many details. These exercises 
should be given daily. In a country school they may be given to ^11 
the classes at once. The teacher gives the incorrect form, the children 
responding in concert with the correct form. After they have become fairly 
proficient, vary the exercise by having the children respond individually. 
Sides may be arranged and the sentences responded to, first by one side and 
then by the other. 

The second exercise consists in answering the questions correctly. As 
soon as the children have learned to do independent work, these questions 
may be written on the board and answered in writing. The responses in 
the first exercise may also be given in writing if the teacher has the time. 



Daily Drills — Second Grade. 



Teacher. 
I seen a man. 
He eat some candy. 
I come to school yesterday. 
She drunk a glass of water. 
I done my lessons. 
I ain't got no chalk. 
I ain't doing nothing. 
It is me. 
It was them. 
It was him. 
It was her. 

There is two books on the desk. 
There was two apples on the table. 
I have saw a man. 
They haven't came yet. 
I have rode to school every day. 
They have went away. 
I have drank some milk. 
She learned me to spell. 
He rung the bell. 
I loaned my pencil. 



Pitpil. 
I saw a man. 
He ate some candy. 
I came to school yesterday. 
She drank a glass of water. 
I did my lessons. 
I have no chalk. 
I'm not doing anything. 
It is I. 
It was they. 
It was he. 
It was she. 

There are two books on the desk. 
There were two apples on the table. 
I have seen a man. 
They haven't come yet. 
I have ridden to school every day. 
They have gone away. 
I have drunk some milk. 
She taught me to spell. 
He rang the bell. 
I lent my pencil. 



Can he come to see me? 
Can I write on the board? 
What did you see this morning? 
What did you eat for breakfast? 
Did you come to school yesterday? 
What did you drink this morning? 
Did you do your work? 
Who is knocking at the door? 
Who took my book? 
Who was talking? 



May he come to see me? 
May I write on the board? 
I saw a horse this morning. 
I ate some mush for breakfast. 
Yes, I came to school yesterday. 
I drank some milk this morning. 
Yes, I did my work. 
It is they. 
It was he. 
I. 



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Teacher. Pupil. 

What are there on the desk? There are two apples on the desk. 
Were there two apples on the table? There were two apples on the table. 

What have you seen to-day? I have seen a horse to-day. 

Have they gone away? They have gone away. 

Did he ring the bell? Yes, he rang the bell. 

Who lent me this pencil? I lent you that pencil. 

^jji»t_ There is no such word. 

FIRST WRITTEN WORK. 

If, before the end of the year, the children finish the work already 
outlined, and really know it orally, the easier work under "second time 
over" may be begun. 

1. Among the devices used in teaching little children to write words, the 
following has been found very successful: Send the class, or at least one 
division, to the board. As soon as all the children are ready, write the word 
on the board. The children may simply watch you, or better still, have 
them trace the letters in the air as you make them. Then have them look 
at the word as a whole; trace it a few times in the air, and all turn and 
write. Those who can not do it, may look at the teacher's word. Encourage 
them to write it first time without looking at the teacher's word. The 
children usually need to write it three or four times to have it thoroughly 
impressed. Then have the children erase, look at the teacher's word, then 
write, the teacher erasing her word. If the children know a few words 
already, this new one may be made into a sentence, the sentence written 
on the board by the teacher, attention called to the capital and period, and 
then the class requested to write. 

Review. — Every day review the work of the preceding days. It is better 
not to dictate the words of the last three or four days, but to 'write them 
on the board, giving the children an opportunity to see them for a second, 
then erase and write. Dictation is sometimes a test. If the children know 
the words, there is little use in testing them. If they do not know them, 
testing will not teach the words to them. 

This same device may be used in any grade by omitting the tracing of 
the word in the air. It is a very excellent way to make a poor speller 
into a good one. 

2. Another device, and a good one for review, is to send the class to the 
board, each child being provided with a slip of paper upon which the words 
are written. Each word may be written twice. As soon as the children 
are far enough along, sentences may be called for. 

3. Cut-up words may be made into sentences at the child's desk. As 
soon as he has finished he may pass to the board and write his sentences 
on the board. 

MARGINS. 

The first tim'e you have the children write on paper, have them place 
their papers properly on their desks. Then say to them, "Hold up the 
hand you do not write with. Close your little finger. Close the one next 
to it. Now you have two fingers standing. Put your hand down on the 

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paper so your longest finger will be on the edge of the paper. ' ' Show them 
how, by drawing on the board a picture of the paper and the hand on it, 
also by holding up a paper with your hand on it. Have them take their 
pens, and write the first word right by their fingers. Then write the second 
line under the first. 

Take your readers, and see that the printer does not print out to the 
edge of his paper, but leaves a space. 

This work should be repeated during every lesson, until all the children 
do it as a matter of course. 

Another device is to give each child a piece of cardboard just as wide as 
the margin should be. He puts this down on his paper with edges even, 
finding the place for the first word. 

The secret of success is to have all the children do it together, imitating 
the teacher first, then alone, the teacher simply reminding, and finally 
without direction. Constantly doing this only one way will bring results. 
Never allow the children to write even a spelling lesson without a margin. 

Have the children take out their readers and look at the first line in 
several stories. They will find the first word much farther from the edge 
of the leaf than the first word of the second or third lines. 

Have them copy the first paragraph of several stories, indenting the first 
word. Afterwards remind them of this whenever they write a story or 
copy a paragraph, until all have formed the habit. 

Another device that may be used is to take a long strip of paper, about 
one and one half inches wide, fold it lengthwise, and slip it over the left- 
hand edge of the paper. The child indents the first word from this paper, 
but writes back to the folded paper each time. This does away with the 
ink margin that is often used, but which mars the looks of the paper. 

THE SENTENCE. (Second Time Over.) 

The exercise under ''first time over" should be repeated from time to 
time. As soon as the children are able to write at all easily, they are ready 
for the "second time over." The purpose of this is to form a reflex for 
writing a sentence properly, with the attention in some other place than on 
the beginning and ending. Success is obtained only through directing their 
attention to it time after time. 

The children should know, first, how to make the capital letters. To 
direct their attention to this, write on the board this list of words: 
the my he a papa baby two by 

Have the children write the same word as they would if it were the first 
word in a sentence. Then make up some sentences, and write them on the 
board. Have the children tell how to finish the sentences. 

Have these sentences copied, reminding them of the margin and a period 

at the close. After all have written, ask them to look at each sentence to 

see if it is finished. 

The boy went home. A pen is on the desk. Baby likes to play. 

My name is May. Papa is good to me. Two boys are in the yard. 

He is a good boy. Baby is by papa. 

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Following this, have a dictation lesson. These sentences should contain 
words that the children know thoroughly : 

My dog is black. A baby is pretty. Baby is good. 

He eats meat. Papa likes me. Some nuts are in the cup. 

Papa buys meat. Baby is here. Two boys ran away. 

Have them copy four sentences from their readers. 

Have several objects in the room, such as a ball, a flower, a fan, a box, a 
cup, a doll, a book, etc.— all objects whose names could be written by the 
children. Hold these up one by one, asking for a sentence about each. As 
the sentences are given, write them on the board, properly begun and ended. 

Copy the best sentences on the front board, and have the children copy 
them for a writing lesson. 

Have a large picture. Ask for sentences about the picture. Then send 
the children to the board, and have them write two sentences about the 
picture. 

Have them write a definite number, say, three, four, or five, according 
to their ability and the time, about the nature-study material. 

Give a familiar subject, as a car, the wind, the sun, a rainbow, the bay, 
a boat, and have the children write a definite number of sentences. 

Device. — Have a pupil come to the front of the room and face the class. 
On the board above his head write a subject. The class then make sentences 
until the pupil can tell what it is. The pupil who gave the last sentence 
must then take his place. — From Bulletin No. 3, ly Alma Patterson; edition 
noyj exhausted. 

DEVICES FOR REVIEW OF VERBS. 

1. Put on the board the past tense of the verbs to be reviewed. Pass to 
each child a slip of paper on which is written a noun that can be used with 
one or more of the verbs. Call on the children for sentences orally, then 
have them pass to the board and write one or more, as: ate, drank, grew 
may be the words on the board. A child may have the word kitty on his 
slip. "When he is called upon to recite he will give such sentences as, "My 
kitty ate meat, " " My kitty drank milk, " " My kitty grew into a big cat. ' ' 
If they substitute she or he for the noun, there is no objection. It sounds 
better, and makes no difference, as the attention is on the verb. 

2. A variation of this device is the game of postman. A child is selected 
as postman. The letters he carries contain three or four words, the past 
tenses of as many verbs. The child pretends to read his letter, but in reality 
gives sentences containing the verbs, as : The letter has the words drew, 
gave, took. When the child is called upon to read he perhaps says, "I drew 
a pretty picture. I gave it to my mama. She took it and gave me a kiss. ' ' 

This may be used as busy work, the work being written after once being 
done orally. 

3. The past tenses of verbs may be put on a ladder, each word on a round. 
The child climbs the ladder by giving or writing sentences with each word 
in order. 

4. Write on the blackboard a list of the verbs in the present tense. Point 
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to a verb, call upon a child. He performs the action indicated by the verb, 
then makes a sentence telling what he did. This may be varied by the 
child's selecting his own verb, performing the action, while the children 
guess what he did, using the past tense of the verb. 



SAW. (Second Time Over.) 

The object is to have the children write the forms which they have learned 
to say. The children should now be able to recognize and write a good 
many names of objects. The method used is to get the sentence from the 
child, have him read it, copy it, and finally write it from dictation. 

1. Review quickly one of the devices under "first time over," then write 
on the board, as the children give the sentence in response to, ' ' Tell me what 
you saw. Tell me what the boy saw ' ' : 

I saw a doll. The girl saw the cat. The man saw a big box. 

The boy saw a box. Mama saw the girl. Frank saw me. 

The baby saw the dog. I saw a little ball. Papa saw the boy. 

I saw a dog by the box. Baby saw two dolls. Frank saw some dogs. 

2. Read these in concert, then individually, and finally copy as many as 
you have time for. 

3. Write the word saw on the board, then dictate the sentences of yester- 
day. The children should be able to write the other words. 

4. Dictate without writing the word saw, unless necessary : 

I saw a man. I saw a little girl. We saw you. 

Baby saw me. She saw a dog. The girl saw mama. 

I saw two dogs. Papa saw me. Baby saw a new doll. 

5. The children may write four sentences of their own containing saw. 



ATE. (Second Time Over.) 

Review op Saw. 

1. Review the first device under "ate." Then say: "Tell me what you 

saw in a cage," and write on the board, "I saw a bird." Have the children 

tell you what the bird ate, and write under the first sentence : ' ' The bird 

ate seeds." In the same way get the following sentences, underline ate, 

and have the sentences read and copied : 

I saw a dog. The dog ate a bird. 

I saw a cake. May' ate the cake. 

I ate an apple. The baby ate bread. 

May saw two girls. The girl ate some candy. 

2. Dictate the sentences of yesterday. Before doing so, write the word 
on the board, and call attention to it. 

3. Ask the children for sentences Avith ate. Write the easiest ones on 
the board. 

4. Have the children make up and write their own sentences. 



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WENT. (Second Time Over.) 

Review of Saw and Ate. 

1. Eeview went orally, using one of the devices under ''first time over." 

2. Copy: 

I saw mama. Baby ate a nut. 

I went to mama. Baby went to mama. 

I went to baby. Baby went by the dog. 

3. Dictate several sentences in review from the lessons on ate and saw. 
Dictate the sentences under exercise 2, using went. 

4. For variety, act out the verb ate. Have a child tell what you did, 
then have the class write the sentence on the board; as, "You ate cake." 
Do the same with went and saw. 

5. Dictate after teaching all the words : I went to the garden. I saw an 
apple. I ate the apple. 

BROUGHT. (Second Time Over.) 

Review of Saw, Went, and Ate. 

1. Review drought orally, using a device in "first time over." Have a 
child bring you a fan. After you have taken it,, have the child say, "I 
brought you a fan. ' ' In the same way get : 

John brought me a hat. I brought you a nut. 

Mary brought me a doll. Tom brought me a ball. 

By this time the children should be able to add the review sentences, if 
the teacher gives the word. Write only the easy sentences on the board ; as, 
I saw an apple. I ate some bread. I went to the park. 

2. Have these sentences copied, then dictate them. 

3. Combine sentences into parapraphs, as : May went into the yard. She 
saw a dog by a tree. She brought him some meat. He ate the meat. 

PAST TENSE OF VERBS IN GENERAL. (Second Time Over.) 

Enough work has been given above to show' the method. Each lesson 
should contain a review of the verbs previously learned. The following 
sentences are added for dictation for each verb. For review, sentences may 
be taken from the preceding lessons : 

cawe caught 

I came to you. The cat caught a rat. 

The boy came to school. I caught the baby. 

Two men came by the school. Dan caught me. 

A boy came by me. The dog caught the ball. 

The baby came to school with me. Ned caught the ball. 

thretv gave 

I threw the ball to Tom. Baby gave me a fan. 

Tom threw the ball to Dan. I gave mama a ball. 

I threw the paper away. Papa gave Tom a top. 

The boy threw me down. Mary gave you an apple. 

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Papa saw the hat. 
Baby went away. 
I ate some candy. 



Review. 

Mary brought her lunch. 
Baby came to school. 
Ned caught a ball. 



I threw a ball. 

Tom did it. 

Tom gave me an apple. 



List of Verbs to be Taught. 



see 


throw 


tell 


speak 


drive 


learn 


borrow 


walk 


eat 


do 


take 


begin 


wear 


teach 


is 


help 


catch 


run 


say 


build 


tear 


set 


are 


cry 


grow 


draw 


bring 


buy 


win 


sit 


feed 


ring 


come 


fall 


know 


sell 


fight 


lie 


jump 


climb 


drink 


go 


break 


swim 


sing 


lay 


find 


need 


write 


fly 


ride 


bite 


lose 


think 


lend 


hear 



As soon as possible use for dictation short stories in paragraph form, 
such as : 

Mary went into the yard. She saw a dog by a tree. She brought him some meat. 
He ate the meat. 

Tom came here. He brought his dog. The dog caught a bird. He gave the bird to 
Tom. 

Here are some apples. Do you like apples? Tom ate one. He gave two to Mary. 
He gave a piece to the baby. She sat down and ate it. 

Tom has a new book. There is a story in it. Mama read it to Tom and his sister. 
They liked the story very much. 

The boy went to school. The teacher taught him spelling. He learned his lesson. 
Was he not a good boy? 

The bird flew from the tree. It tore its wing in the bushes. It lay on the grass. The 
boy brought it home. 

I saw a hunter. He wore clothes of fur. He swam in the river. Did you ever see a 
hunter? 

I gathered some flowers. They grew on the hills. We laid them on the table. Did 
you ever find any? 

I borrowed a book. It was a story-book. Our teacher told us some of the stories. 
We read from the book. 

Willie broke his skates. He ran too fast. He fell down. I thought he knew how to 
skate. 

We went to a picnic in the country. We ate our lunches in the woods. We played 
games. We rode on the train. Then we drove home. 

The boy bought a slate. The man sold it to him. He drew pictures on it. He 
brought it home that night. The teacher thought he drew very nice pictures. 

Mary fell into the water. She cried aloud. Her brother jumped after her. He swam 
with her to the shore. He brought her home. 

We climbed up the tree. We found a nest. There were some eggs in it. We did not 
take any. We knew it was wrong if we stole them. 

The dog bit John. We heard John cry. We ran to help him. We found him lying 
on the grass. We went home with him. 

They built the schoolhouse on the hill. We walked to school every day. The bell 
rang at nine o'clock. We always were there early. 

James had a pony. He fed it every morning before going to school. The pony liked 
James very much. It soon grew to be quite big. 

Elsie needed a song-book. John lent his to her. The children sang very nicely. The 
little bird heard them and began to sing too. 

We wrote a story. It was about the squirrels. They drank from the brook. They fed 
on acorns. They threw some acorns on the ground. We then drew pictures of them. 

The classes fought hard for the spelling banner. Those who worked the hardest won. 

Jack told me about his trip. He swam in the lake. A crab bit him. He caught the 
crab and brought it home. 

The horse was sold. Mr. Smith had bought it. Mary began to cry when she saw 
him go. 

Mama bought some apples. I saw James eating some. Mama did not wish him to. 
James was sorry. 

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Mary went to the country. She wrote to me every day. She came home yesterday. 
John threw a rock. He broke a window. He said he did not mean to do it. I told 
him to be more careful. Then he ran away to play. 

Mary began to draw. She drew some flowers. Her teacher told her that they were 

V6rv pretty 

I saw Mary playing. She was trying to catch Jack. She fell down and tore her dress. 

They went to the river to drink. Tiey fell in. Soon they swam out again. 

John sold his kite to Jack. Jack flew the kite. It caught in the trees. He tried to 
pull it down, but it tore. Then he sat down and cried. 

Mr. Smith rode in his wagon. His horse fell down and broke its leg. He brought 
the horse home. It grew better. I saw him drive it yesterday. 

She spoke to me about her new dress. She wore it Sunday. I saw it then. I told 
her it was very pretty. 

John ran a race. He won it. I knew he would. 

She taught her dog to sit up. It could jump, too. It was a very good dog. It would 

not bite. . 

Jack learned how to build houses. He built a house for his pets. They are in it now. 
The boy climbed a tree. The bear climbed it also. He jumped down, and so did the 

bear. 

My dog lay under the house. I thought he was dead. He saw me and ran out. i 

fed him then. 

I set my lunch under a bush. I thought it was safe. Soon I came back. Some tramps 
were eating it. They said that they just borrowed it. 

The lady sang a song. It was beautiful. I told my mother about it. 

I helped Jack with his work. He lent me a book. I enjoyed the story very much. 

IT IS I~IT WAS I. (Second Time Over.) 

1. Review all the exercises under "first time over," having the children 
write all the sentences as they were given in each exercise. 

2. Have these sentences completed and read alond : 

It was I who. It is I who. It was she who. It is she who. 

It was he who. It is he who. It was they who. It is they who. 

3. Dictate: 

It was I who knocked at the door. It is I who will help you. 

It was he who lost the marbles. It is they who are to blame. 

It was they who came to see me. It was she who went away. 
It was we who sang the song. 

4. Answer each of the following questions with one of the sentences here 

given : 

It is I. It was I. 

It is he. It was he. 

It is she. It was she. 

Who told the story so well? Who is stamping her feet? 

Who brought me these flowers? Who is singing? 

Was Mr. Hill the man who helped the Who was it that fed the chickens? 

little girl? Was it John or he who left the room? 

5. Tell this story, and have it reproduced : 

One day Mary was playing house with her little friend, Birdie. Suddenly, they heard 
somebody knocking at the door. "Who is there?" they cried. "It is I," said a voice. 
"I wonder who it is," said Birdie. "It might be your brother." "Oh, it isn't he ; he 
went out a long time ago," said Mary. When they opened the door they couldn't see 
anybody. So they began to play again, when again they heard somebody knocking at 
the door. Mary said, "Who is there?" "It is we," cried some voices; but when they 
opened the door they couldn't see anybody this time. Finally Mary said, "Oh! I know 
who it is, it is my cousins." Birdie said, "Do you think it is they?" "Yes; let us 
stand here and catch them." So when they knocked again Birdie opened the door quickly, 

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and caught the boys. Mary said, "Did you knock at this door before?" The boys said, 
"It wasn't we, it was Ella," but Birdie said, "It wasn't she." Finally the boys said that 
they were only fooling, and that it was they who knocked at the door. 



AM NOT— IS NOT— ARE NOT. 

1. Begin in a very quick way with the first row, saying, "I am not talking. 
Tell me what you are not doing." Each child gives one sentence. To the 
next row say, " He is not thinking. Tell me something else he is not doing. ' ' 
In the same way, go around with, ' ' You are not, " " She is not, " " They are 
not." This is very successful, if done quickly, not waiting for the slower 
ones. They will get it by hearing the others. 

2. Write on the board fourteen sentences, calling for them after the 
above exercise, and have them copied; as, 



I am not playing in scliool. 

Your are not always in your seat. 

He is not writing his lesson. 

We are not singing softly. 

They are not good friends now. 

She is not buying some meat. 

The teacher is not hearing the class spell. 



They are not doing their work. 

He is not standing by the window. 

She is not playing the piano. 

Mama is not at home now. 

The boys are not playing in the yard. 

I am not listening now. 

The girls are not writing well. 



3. Have the children answer, first orally, then written, the following 
questions. The answers should all begin with no : 



Are you going to the park to-day? 

Is she fond of candy? 

Is he always on time? 

Are they reading a new book? 

Are we to sing "America" to-day? 

Are they doing their work? 

4. Dictate these sentences: 

He is not the boy I want. 

No, I am not going to the park. 

It is not right to fight. 

She is not well to-day. 

The men are not in the field. 



Are you going home early to-night? 
Is he to be promoted next year? 
Are they to walk quickly by? 
Are you playing tag now? 
Are they in the fourth grade? 
Is he looking at the deer? 



They are not ready to go. 
The old man is not my friend. 
The two boys are not hurt. 
I am not eight years old yet. 
Papa is not in the city to-day. 



5. This may be followed by a series of lessons on questions. See Topic 
"Questions," page 37. 

CONTRACTIONS. 

1. Say to the children, "We are to have a game to-day. I shall say 
something, and you may say exactly the opposite. We shall begin with the 
first row. I am singing. You may say, 'I am not singing,' and so on." 

Give the following sentences to the first row : 



I am talking. 
I am playing. 



I am trying. 
I am walking. 



I am whispering 
I am singing. 



To the second row give : ' ' You are talking, ' ' etc. "The children answer, 
"You are not talking." 

To the third row give : ' ' They are singing ' ' ; then, ' ' He is singing ' ' ; then, 
' ' She is singing, " " The boy is singing, " "He was talking. ' ' Do this very 
quickly, and keep track of the time it takes. Tell them that we shall try 
to see if we can not do it in less time. Instead of saying, ' ' I am not, ' ' they 

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may say, "I'm not." Tell the second row what to say when it comes their 
turn. The children enjoy this very much, and want to do it again. 

After going around the room with the contractions, call for two sentences 
from each row, write them on the board, and have them copied; as, 

I'm not talking. They aren't singing. He wasn't talking. 

rm not reading. They aren't playing. She isn't sewing. _ 

You aren't laughing. He isn't sitting still. She isn't playing the piano. 

You aren't walking. He isn't running. She wasn't playing. 

2. Give the contractions as a part of the spelling lesson. 

3. Write on the board the contractions, and have them make up two 
sentences about each, writing them on paper ; as, 

I'm You aren't They aren't He isn't She isn't She wasn't 

4. Write the following sentences on the board, having the children write 
the opposite or denial: 

I am playing in the garden. She is buying a new hat. 

The boy is doing his work. They are eating two apples. 

The men are building a house. My sister is singing in the church. 

The lady is mending her glove. The acorn is on the ground. 

You are doing your work well. The boy is on the street. 

He is playing school with his sisters. The frogs are swimming in the pond. 

There is a piece of pie on the table. I was swinging. 

He is a dear little baby. He was laughing. 

5. Have the children answer these questions, beginning each sentence 
with no and a comma : 

Are you reading the Second Reader now? Is he working in the store? 

Am I going with you to-night? Is she cooking the dinner? 

Is she eating her dinner? Are they wading in the water? 

Is Jane studying her lesson? Is the sun shining? 

Are they studying arithmetic now? Was he telling the story? 

Are you picking flowers? Was I reading a book? 

Are you planting corn? 

6. Write the short form of the following ; then use in a sentence : 

I am not. You are not. He is not. She is not. They are not. He was not. 

7. Dictate the following sentences: 

I'm not reading in the Second Reader. They aren't picking flowers. 

I'm not going with you to-night. They aren't planting corn. 

She isn't eating her dinner. He isn't working in the store. 

Jane isn't studying her lesson. They aren't wading in the water. 

They aren't studying now. The girl wasn't doing it. 

8. Hold before the class a picture which shows several children or animals 
performing some act. One child must have his eyes closed so as not to see 
the picture. Let him ask questions; as, "Are the children running?" 
"The children aren't running." "Are they eating?" "They aren't 
eating. ' ' 

9. Choose a boy and have him decide what kind of a store he will keep. 
While the teacher steps out of the room the boy tells the class what kind 
of a store he keeps. The teacher comes in and tries to find out the kind of 
store by asking, "Does he keep a candy store?" Some child is called upon 
who replies, "No, he doesn't keep a candy store.". The questions go on 
until the teacher guesses correctly. This may- be varied by having two 

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children keep a store togetlrer. The question then is, Do they keep a candy 
store? and the answer, No, they don't keep a candy store. 

10. Have the children repeat, individually and in concert, the following 

sentences until they are perfectly familiar with the sound : 

I do not like to run. We do not march every day. 

He does not ride a horse. They do not come to school. 

She does not go to school. It does not look well. 

The baby does not cry. The boys do not care to go. 

11. Fill in the blanks : 

I do not . We do not . 

You do not . They do not . 

He does not . It does not . 



She does not . The boys do not . 

12. Answer the following questions, using do not or does not in the 

answer : 

Do you like to sing? Do they have new pens to-day? 

Does the boy ride a horse? Does it have wheels? 

Does the man work hard? Does she play well? 
Do we have school to-day? 

13. Repeat the exercises, using doesn't and don't instead of does not and 
do not. 



THERE ARE— THERE WERE. (Second Time Over.) 

1. Get by questions the following sentences. Write them on the board 

and have them copied. The next day dictate them : 

There are twenty children in our room. There are two men on the street. 

There are many plants in our garden. , There were three bears in the woods. 
There are three fish in the jar. There were two frogs in the water. 

There are many silkworms spinning silk. There were three little pigs in the pen. 
There are two pencils on my desk. There were two micfe in the trap. 

2. Say to the children: "I am thinking of something. There are many 

leaves on it. There are many seeds on it. There are wings on the seeds. 

What is it?" "I am thinking of something else. There are two windows 

in it. There are two doors in it. There are two horses in it. What is it ? " 

Give each child a card with one of the following words on it. The children 

make up two sentences with there are about each: 

rosebush bird cat book hat house garden 

desk boat table dress picture cupboard mouse-trap 

aquarium vase coat hill beach stove piano 

After all have finished, the children take turns in reading, the others 
guessing, then three of the best are dictated ; as, 

I am thinking of something. There are two long pieces of wood in it. There are two 
iron pieces on the sides. There are three seats in it. What is it? A loat. 

I am thinking of something. There are many pictures on it. There are flowers in it. 
What is it? A vase. 

There are two doors to it. There are many shelves in it. There are dishes in it. 
What is it? A cupioard. 

3. Copy from your readers the sentences containing tJiere are and also 
those containing there were. 

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4. Place on the desk the objects as in device 1, first time over, and have 
the children make up sentences about them, using there are. 

5. Have these questions answered : 

How many children are there in the room? How many desks are there in each row? 

How many boys are there? How many windows are there in the 

How many girls are there? room? 

THERE IS— THERE WAS. (Second Time Over.) 

1. Put several things on the table in sight of the class. "Tell me what 

there is on the table. " " Tell me what there is on the stove ; on the chair ; 

in the yard. ' ' Write the sentences as they are given. 

There is a box on the table now. There is a pan on the stove. 

There is a new book on the table. There is a cat on the chair. 

There is a knife on the table. There is a boy in the yard now. 

If it had happened yesterday, how would I have written it? 

There was a box on the table. There was a pan on the stove. 

There was a new book on the table. There was a cat on the chair. 

There was a knife on the table. There was a boy in the yard. 

Have these sentences copied, and later dictate them to the class. 

2. Have these questions answered orally, then written: 

What is there on the board? What was there on the table yesterday? 

What is there on the table? What was there in the yard yesterday? 

What is there on the chair? What was there on the street yesterday? 

What is there on the stove? What was there on the desk Monday? 

What is there under the stove? What was there in the office this morning? 

3. Write four sentences beginning with there is. Write four beginning 
with there was. 

SINGULAR AND PLURAL. 

1. Draw on the board the picture of a top, a hat, an apple, a bird, a 
turtle, a tree, a book, etc. On another part of the board draw two, three, 
or four of the same objects. The children may then tell what was drawn 
on the front board, and also how many and what were drawn on the side 
board. Have them enunciate very clearly the "s" in the plural. Then 
have them give sentences telling something about one top, about two 
tops,_ etc. 

2. Have a number of objects in a box. The children come and take from 
the box all they can find of any one thing, saying very clearly, ' ' I took three 
books," "I took three pencils," etc. Use this to review the verbs; as, "I 
found two pencils," "You gave me a pen," "I brought you a book," "We 
sang one song to-day," "There are three marbles in my pocket," "There 
were," etc. 

3. To teach the children some of the harder plurals, say, "How many 
would like t,o know what is in this box? You may find out, and tell the 
class." Insist on having them use the word hox in their answers. Have a 
number of little boxes in one big one. "You may tell me how many little 
boxes there are in this big box. Count the big boxes in the cabinet. How 
many are there? How many boxes are on my desk? How many boxes 

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have you at home? You may take out your pencil-boxes. How many in 
the first row ? The second row ? How many in the room ? ' ' 

"What does the storekeeper keep in boxes?" 

"What do we keep in boxes? How many boxes on the nature-study 
shelf?" 

"Draw one box on the board. Draw two boxes. How many are one 
box and two boxes ? " 

4. Take up man and men in the same way, drawing one man walking, 
jumping, running, singing, creeping, etc. The children give sentences 
telling what the man is doing. Then draw one more man. ' ' There are two 
men now. Tell me what the two men are doing. How many men come 
to visit you every day? How many men does it take to run a street car? 
Let us count to see how many hands the two men have. How many feet? 
How many eyes ? How many ears ? Noses ? ' ' Insist on their using men in 
the answer. 

5. Have some pictures. The children give sentences about the men in 
the pictures and what they are doing. 

6. Have them take their readers, and find out how many pictures of men 
there are on a certain page, what they are doing, etc. 

7. In the same way teach the plurals of tooth, foot, mouse, leaf, child, 
fish. This they learn from the fish in their aquarium, kept in the room 
all the time. 

8. Device foe Review. — Keep drawn on the board permanently the 
picture of a man, tooth, foot, mouse, leaf, and child, and in another place 
two or three of each. The children give in concert each day for a time : " I 
see one man, " " I see one foot, ' ' etc. They also turn to the other board and 
say, "I see two men," "I see two feet," etc. Call on them individually for 
the same thing. Have them make up sentences about the pictures. 

Second Time Over. 

By this time the children can give orally the plurals of all the common 
nouns in their vocabulary and write the singular number. 

1. Put on the board this list : 

A fish. A horse. A boy. 

A dog. A frog. A man. 

A cat. A child. A leaf. 

Have the children tell something each one of these does. As they give 

the words, fill in the sentences. They then tell what all fish do. These 

write also and at their dictation, having them enunciate clearly the "s," 

if it is present. Have them copy both sets ; as, 

A fish swims. All fish swim. 

A dog barks. All dogs bark. 

A cat mews, etc. All cats mew, etc. 

2. Have another exercise like the first, reviewing many familiar names 
and adding mouse, tooth, foot. 

3. Write on the board all the singular nouns so far studied ; call on them 
for the plurals, write them opposite, and have the class pronounce and copy. 

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4. Dictate the following sentences : 

There are two men on the street. The women aren't buying any new hats. 

I keep my teeth well brushed. Five fish are in the jar. 

My feet are not muddy to-day. The leaves fall from the trees. 

The children are playing in the yard. I caught two mice in a trap. 

There are four deer by the river. They have four boxes of marbles in their 

I hear some mice making a hole. rooms. 

He knows where to catch some fish. 

5. Write on the board, men, women, teeth, feet, children, hoxes, fish, 
leaves, mice, and have the children make up sentences, first orally, then in 
writing. 

6. Dictate the words of exercise 5 meaning one, and have the children 
write the word meaning more than one. 

7. Take as a spelling lesson the following words: habies, ladies, flies, 
knives, loaves, wolves, calves. 

8. Write the list on the board, have the words pronounced clearly, and 

oral sentences given about each word. Write these sentences on the board, 

and have them copied: 

There are many babies on our street. I bought two loaves of bread for my 

The ladies went to tea this afternoon. mother. 

Fi'ogs like to eat flies. The wolves ate the sheep. 

Boys make boats with their knives. I see a picture of two little calves. 

9. Dictate the sentences in exercise 8. 

10. Pass out to the class some small pictures of one or many of various 
animals and objects. Have the children pass to the board, and write a 
"there is" or "there are" story about the picture, and tell also what the 
object was good for and what it could do. Have these sentences read 
in turn. 

11. Have them change these sentences to mean more than one, first orally, 
then in writing : 

I have a baby at home. The child broke a slate. 

My pencil is in my desk. The fish is in the jar. 

The calf played in the field. I lost a tooth to-day. 

We ate a loaf of bread for breakfast. We drew a leaf to-day. 

I saw a lady to-day. The man hurt his foot. 

The frog ate a fly. The wolf broke into the yard. 

The man rode to town. I caught a mouse in the trap. 



QUESTIONS. 

Tell the children the story of "The Sheep and the Pig" (Sara E. Wiltsie : 
Folklore Stories and Proverbs, page 32). Have the children act it out. 
After each speaking part has been taken, those left are moss or pegs. Be 
careful that the questions are clearly asked. 

Give the story of "The Little Red Hen and the Grain of Wheat," in 
dialogue form ; it can easily be acted out. Also other stories, such as : " The 
Three Bears," etc.; "Henny Penny" (Sara E. Wiltsie: Folklore Stories 
and Proverbs, pages 1-18) . For "Little Red Hen, " see under "Did, " First 
Grade, page 12. 

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Second Time Over. 

1. Tell three children to get something in their hands, not to let any one 

see it, and come to the front of the room. "Now, you tell me when I guess 

what it is. Gaspar, is it a pencil? Is it some chalk? Is it candy? Is it 

a pencil ? " " Yes. " "I guessed it. Now, May, is it your cap ? Is it a box ? 

Is it a flower?" "Yes." "Now, Louis, is it a knife? Is it a nut? Is it a 

pen-wiper?" "Yes." "Now the children may guess what I have. The 

question that brings 'yes' will be written on the board." The following 

are the questions. Make the question mark with colored crayon : 

Is it a flower? Is it colored crayon? Is it a nut? 

Is it your handkerchief? Is it a bottle? Is it a blotter? 

Is it candy? Is it an apple? Is it a pen? 

Have these sentences copied. 

2. The next day take questions beginning with "can it." "Have you a 
pet at home, Walter? I am going to guess what it is. Can it run? Can 
it bark ? Then it is a dog. ' ' 

"Have you a pet, Edith? Can it sing? Can it purr? Then it is a cat. 
Now, I have a pet at home. Guess what it is." 

Ask questions beginning with "can it." Put all the questions on the 

board. It helps the children in asking. Have the following copied : 

Can it jump? Can it bite? Can it eat? Can it run? Can it fight? 

Can it sing? Can it hop? Can it talk? Can it bark? Can it run up a tree? 

3. Now take "has it" questions. Have a number of pictures. Let Helen 
choose one, then ask, "Has it four legs? Has it two horns? Has it wool 
on its back? Then it is a sheep. Now, I have one, and you may guess. 
The one who guesses may have the picture. We will write on the board the 
question that makes you think what it is. ' ' 

Have the children copy these : 

Has it fur on its back? Has it horns? Has it two legs? Has it long hind legs? 

Has it long ears? Has it a trunk? Has it long hair? Has it any legs? 

Has it feathers? Has it a long neck? 

4. Follow these by questions beginning with ' ' are they. ' ' Hold a picture 

in your hand so that the children can not see. "You may guess what the 

children are doing. ' ' Copy these sentences : 

Are they playing ball? Are they walking along? 

Are they running? Are they sitting under a tree? 

Then take other pictures, make a list of ten sentences, write them on the 
board, and have them copied by the children. 

5. By this time the children should have an idea of what questions are. 
Take a picture. "What is the little girl doing? Where is she going? 

What is her name? Now you may ask me anything you wish about this 
new picture. I will answer your questions." .Write ten of the best 
questions on the board, and have them copied. 

6. Write on the board : 

Are you a good boy? Will you lend me your book? Have you a pencil? 

What do we call these sentences? How do they end? Take out your 
readers, and read a question. How does it end ? Copy all the questions on 
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7. Read the story on page 76. Ask six questions about the story. 

8. Dictate the following questions : 

What is the boy doing? Can you write well? 

Where are you going? Does the fish come to the top to breathe? 

Has the boy a whip? Are you having a good time? 

What does the cat do? Is she going home? 

Who has seen my dog? How do you spell your name? 

9. Have the children ask two questions they would like to have answered, 
about: the silkworms; the tent caterpillars; the oak galls; the poUiwogs; 
the frogs ; the sprouting seeds. 

10. Put up a large picture before the class, and tell the children to write 
five questions about it. 

11. Divide the class into two parts. Send one half to the board to write 
questions; the other half to answer them. The first sentence completed is 
to be answered by the one who sees it. If any one makes a mistake, the 
one who discovers it takes his place. 

12. Have the following story reproduced orally : 

Once there was a little boy named Tom. He had a dog, Carlo. Tom and Carlo were 
very good friends. One day mama left them out in the garden playing. Soon she came 
out and called, "Tom," as loud as she could. But Toin did not answer. Then she heard 
Carlo barking. She ran as fast as she could to the spot. What do you think she saw? 
There on the grass lay Tom, all wet and cold. He had slipped and fallen into the water. 
How do you think he got out? 

13. If the children do not have the idea of a question by this time, follow 
this series with some lesson on ' ' did he, "etc. 

14. Have a picture of a little boy with a small bucket and a spade. Say 
to the class, ' ' What do you think this little boy did ? If you ask me, I will 
tell you when you are right." Put the questions on the board and have 
them copied. 

15. After such subjects as "I have no," "I haven't any," "isn't," "are 
not," "there is," "are," "was," "were," etc., take up, as an extra time 
over, the same thing, only in question form, using the same exercises as 
under "Questions." 

16. If some children are careless about putting in the question marks — 
and by careless I mean that they know when to put in the marks and where, 
if their attention is called to it — write a story on the board, leaving out the 
periods and question marks. The children copy, putting in the proper 
marks. A hectograph copy for each child is better. This is not a means of 
teaching, but a cure for careless work. 

"Big Spider and Little Spider" (Sara E. Wiltsie: Folklore Stories and 
Proverbs, page 11) is a good story for this purpose. 

17. The story of "The Ugly Duckling" contains some good questions. 



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May I. 

1. Select a child for teacher and have her take the teacher's chair. The 

children are to ask questions. Whisper to each child a question, then have 

the pupil-teacher call upon the children individually. Such questions as 

the following are good ones : 

May I close the window? May I look at the silkworms? 

May I leave the room? May I put this into the waste basket? 

May I ask John for a pencil? May I write on the board? 

May I go to the stove? May I clean the erasers? 

2. Have the children think of something they can do and would like to 
do. Ask permission to do it. 

3. Make these sentences complete : 

go to the park? read a story? 

look at the picture? do the next example? 

take care of the baby? go home? 

sing a song? speak to May? 

draw a picture? get a drink of water? 

4. Have a list of questions on the board. With the help of the children 

select the beginning word of the question, and make a list of these words on 

the board. Erase the question; then have the children m.ake their own, 

using as the first word, one of the words on the board. 

Did you go to the city? Can you hear the watch tick? 

Are you warm? What did the bear tell you? 

Were you at the park? Why did you not go? 

Is Edith going home? May I be monitor for my row? 

Where are you going? Who will do this? 

Did you feel the earthquake? Do you like to spell? 

Have you a dog? Has he a new knife? 

Can you jump the rope? Do you like to buy candy? 

Does he live here? Have you a piece of meat? 

Why did you run too far? Where did they put their books? 

The Three Butterflies, 

Three butterflies were caught in a shower of rain. One was white, one 
was yellow, and one was brown. They were far from home. They did not 
know what to do. 

They saw a white tulip and flew to her. ' ' Please may we come into your 
house?" they called. '^Only the white butterfly may come in," said the 
tulip. ''Her wings are the color of my house." "If you will not take my 
friends, I shall not come in, ' ' said the white butterfly. 

They flew to a yellow tulip. "Please may we come into your house until 
the rain is over ? ' ' they asked. ' ' Only the yellow butterfly may come in, ' ' 
said the tulip. "Her wings are the color of my house. " "If you will not 
take my friends, I shall not come in," said the yellow butterfly. 

They flew to a brown tulip. "Please may we come into your house until 
the rain is over?" they asked. "The brown butterfly may come in," said 
the tulip. "Her wings are the color of my house." "If you will not take 
my friends, I shall not come in," said the brown butterfly. 

Just then they heard the elm tree call to them. She said, ' ' Come to my 
branches until the rain is over." So the three butterflies went in out of 
the rain. (40) 



TWO. 



1. Have on the desk two boxes, two pieces of chalk, two erasers, two pens, 
pencils, cups, books, etc. Call on the children to give sentences telling how 
many there are. 

2. "Write for them on the board three of the sentences, underlining two: 
There are two pens on the desk. There are two pencils on the desk. There are two 

erasers on the desk. 

3. Send them to the board to write two sentences, each telling about two 
objects on the desk. 

4. Have one child make up a sentence using tivo, and another write it 
on the board. 

5. Perform several acts, having the children write on the board what was 
done; as, "You put two books on the desk. You took two pencils from 
the table." 

6. Dictate: 



Two pens are in my desk. 
Two girls came here last night. 
There are two frogs in our cage. 
I have two hands. 
I have two apples for lunch.- 
Mama gave me two ribbons. 



There are two windows in my room. 
The boys brought two worms for the 

water-dog. 
I have read two books. 
The boy missed two words. 



7. Have the children write a list telling about everything of the body 
that there are two of; as, two eyes. Have them write sentences telling all 
the things at home that there are two of; as, "There are two beds in my 
room," etc. 

PRESENT TENSE. 

1. Write on the board the word dog. Tell the children that you will 
make a list of all the things a dog does, and then as they name the various 
actions write them down in this way : 



r 



A dog ^ 



jumps. 

barks. 

howls. 

eats. 

drinks. 

runs. 

wags his tail. 

lies down. 

chases cats. 

hunts rabbits. 



After this, write down in another place All dogs. Then have the children 
go over the list and see what changes must be made. The new list will 
look like this : 



All dogs < 



jump. 

bark. 

howl. 

eat. 

drink. 

run. 

wag their tails. 

lie down. 

chase cats. 

hunt rabbits. 



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Have the children read the sentences aloud, pronouncing clearely the s in 
jumps, harks, etc., and in the plural form the s in dogs. 

2. Give the children such groups as, A horse, a cow, a toby, a man; then 
Many horses, all cows, all hahies, many men, some men, a few horses, etc., 
and have them make out the lists. 

3. Write these sentences on the board. Have the children rewrite them 
so they will mean many instead of one. Give as a spelling lesson those 
words that change y to i for the singular form, as files, cries; and those 
that add es, as catches, goes, does. 

The boy sees the dog. The apple grows on the tree. 

He goes to school every day. The little girl sits near me. 

The cow eats hay. She jumps rope every morning. 

She brings the book. The cat plays chase the string. 

The baby comes slowly. The tired horse lies down in the street. 

The dog catches the ball. Mama makes bread. 

He throws the ball swiftly. The boy flies a kite in the field. 

She does the work well. He loses the game without crying. 

He gives me part of the apple. The baby cries for food. 

4. "Does not" and "do not" are so frequently used incorrectly that it 
is well to give them special attention here. 

Read aloud these incomplete sentences and fill the blanks to complete 
them. Copy, and study for dictation : 

I do not . Does he ? 

You do not . Does she ? 

He does not . Do they ? 



Papa 


Mice 


The hen 


Men 


You 


Dog 



She does not • . Do many children ? 

The boy does not . Do the stars ? 

We do not . Does the fox — ? 

Girls do not . Do the cats ? 

They do not . 

5. Select words from this list and fill in the blanks. Have this work 

oral at first, so the children will become accustomed to the sound. After 

the children have copied the sentences, filling in the blanks, call on them 

to read their sentences aloud : 

He They The sun We 

She The man Children It 

I The boy Kittens Baby 

doesn't like to run. 

do not wish to go. 

do not come out in the day time. 

do not play in school. 

— does not lay eggs every day. 

does not work in the city. 

does not smell sweet. 

do not row well. 

does not shine every day. 

Does the bark? 

Don't play nicely? 

this that these those 

1. Review the lessons on this, these, that, those in the First Grade work. 

2. The teacher may say, I am thinking of something on this table. The 
children may then ask questions such as, Is it that book ? Is it that cup ? 

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etc., or as his name is called he may come up and picking up the object say, 
Is it this book ? Is it this pencil ? 

The next exercise would be for the teacher to announce that she is think- 
ing of two pencils in the room. As the child is called upon, he picks up two 
pencils and asks, Is it these two pencils 1 Or, he may point to two and ask, 
Is it those two pencils ? 

Have the children write some words on the board and have a child guess 
what words John wrote. The child should ask, Did John write those words, 
or these words, according to whether he can touch the words or merely 
point to them. 

3. Have the children use this, that, these, or those in the following 
sentences : 

1. boy is very tall. 

2. flowers are very pretty. 

3. I can not reach boxes. 

4. pen on my desk is new. 

5. dolls in the new store are pretty. 

6. Will you bring me pencils? 

7. books in my hand are for you. 

8. top in the yard is broken. 

9. • — : cup on the table is mine. 

10. What shall I do with • boxes? 

11. He doesn't know where to put ■ picture. 

12. • things in my desk are too small. 

Paragraphs for Dictation. 

There are some squirrels. Don't they run fast? Aren't their tails long? I'm not 
afraid of them. These squirrels are very tame. 

There were some poppies on the hill. May I find them? Those are very large. I'm 
going to bring these home. 

Isn't James at home? I wasn't at school, either. Perhaps he doesn't live here now. 
^es, there are his cat and dog. May I speak to him when I see him? 

Aren't the birds singing sweetly? I'm going to open the window to listen. Isn't that 
little one pretty? Wasn't it the one that ate the crumbs? 

Isn't the weather lovely? I'm going out for a walk. Aren't you coming with me? 
I'm so sorry. * 

Jack said there were some boys in our yard. They were not good boys. I don't like 
to plky with them. 

Aren't you going to play ball to-day? I'm going to do it. There are some other boys 
going with me. 

Doesn't Fannie draw prettily? She made these flowers. Her sister drew those poppies. 
I'm trying to draw, too. 

May I go out to play? There are some girls waiting for me. I'm tired of being in 
the house. I couldn't go out yesterday. It was too cold. 



4— But.. 9 (43) 



THIRD GRADE. 



DAILY DRILLS, 

While this Bulletin contains much material worked out at length, the 
author feels that a few drills given daily will help more toward acquir- 
ing correct forms than the study of too many details. These exercises 
should be given every day. In a country school they may be given to all the 
classes at once. The teacher gives the incorrect form, the children respond- 
ing in concert with the correct form. After they have become fairly 
proficient, vary the exercise by having the children respond individually. 
Sides may be arranged and the sentences responded to, first by one side and 
then by the other. 

The second exercise consists in answering the questions correctly. As 
soon as the children have learned to do independent work, the questions 
may be written on the board and answered in Avriting. The responses in 
the first exercise may also be given in writing if the teacher has the time. 



Daily Drills — Third Grade. 



Teacher. 
I seen a man. 
He eat some candy. 
I come to school yesterday. 
She drunk a glass of water. 
I done my lessons. 
I ain't got no chalk. 
I ain't doing nothing. 
It is me. 
It was them. 
It was him. 
It was her. 

There is two books on the desk. 
There was two apples on the table. 
I have saw a man. 
They haven't came yet. 
I have rode to school every day. 
They have went away. 
I have drank some milk. 
He rung the bell. 
I loaned my pencil. 
Can he come to see me? 
Can I write on the board? 
She learned me to spell. 
Tom learned his dog to sit up. 
The lady set down to rest. 
I laid down yesterday. 
You must not lay on the wet grass. 



Pupil. 
I saw a man. 
He ate some candy. 
I came to school yesterday. 
She drank a glass of water. 
I did my lessons. 
I have no chalk. 
I'm not doing anything. 
It is I. 
It was they. 
It was he. 
It was she. 

There are two books on the desk. 
There were two apples on the table. 
I have seen a man. 
They haven't come yet. 
I have ridden to school every day. 
They have gone away. 
I have drunk some milk. 
He rang the bell. 
I lent my pencil. 
May he come to see me? 
May I write on the board? 
She taught me to spell. 
Tom taught his dog to sit up. 
The lady sat down to rest. 
I lay down yesterday. 
You must not lie on the wet grass. 



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Teacher. 
What did you see this morning? 
What did you eat for breakfast? 
Did you come to school yesterday? 
What did you drink this morning? 
Did you do your work? 
Who is knocking at the door? 
Who took my book? 
Who was talking? 
What are there on the desk? 
Were there two apples on the table? 
What have you seen to-day? 
Have they gone away? 
Did he ring the bell? 
Who lent me this pencil? 
Does John sit in this seat? 
Who sat next to you? 
Who taught you to spell? 
Did you lie on the wet grass? 
Did you lie down yesterday? 
Ain't. 



Pupil. 
I saw a horse this morning. 
I ate some mush for breakfast. 
Yes, I came to school yesterday. 
I drank some milk this morning. 
Yes, I did my work. 
It is they. 
It was he. 
I. 

There are two books on the desk. 
There were two apples on the table. 
I have seen a horse to-day. 
Yes, they have gone away. 
Yes, he rang the bell. 
I lent you that pencil. 
John sits in this seat. 
Tom sat next to me. 
My teacher taught me to spell. 
I didn't lie on the wet grass. 
I lay down yesterday. 
There is no such word. 



VERBS. (Third Time Over.) 

1. Write on the board each day a list of ten verbs. Call upon the 
children for the "yesterday form"; write it opposite; call for sentences 
using each word, then erase the past tense. Send the class to the board, 
give out the present tense, and have the children write the past tense. 



see 


throw 


play 


drive 


fly 


break 


sell 


lie 


go 


do 


are 


drink 


tell 


ride 


swim 


lend 


eat 


give 


lay 


write 


take 


speak 


sing 


teach 


b ring- 


grow 


make 


run 


say 


begin 


lose 


borrow 


come 


sit 


open 


draw 


win 


build 


learn 


is 


catch 


jump 


think 


fall 


know 


fight 


set 


play 



2. Write on the board these sentences, and have the children read them, 
changing them to past time. (Gradually drop the term "yesterday form," 
and use past tense, with no explanation.) Copy each sentence, rewriting 
on next line to show past time : 



I see a man walking on the street. 
I eat mush and milk for breakfast. 
I catch frogs in the pond. 
The flowers grow in the garden. 
The boys come to school early. 
I throw the ball very high. 
I do my work well. 
I go to school with my brother. 
I bring my sister with me to school. 
She gives me flowers. 
The cow drinks water from the brook. 
I write my lesson well. 
He runs very fast. 
, The girl draws pictures on the board. 
The baby falls down. 
The bird flies fast. 
She tells me how to do it. 
The girl' takes her books home. 
She says her piece well. 
He wins every game. 
Toiji knows his lesson. 
The little girl breaks her dishes. 
Ned rides a pony. 
He speaks without permission. 



We begin early in the morning. 

The boys build a fort of sand. 

The boy fights for his sister. 

Grocers sell tea. 

The frog swims in the pond. 

I lose my place in the reading class. 

He learns quickly. 

The teacher set the vase on her desk. 

He lends his knife to his sister. 

She teaches the baby to walk. 

He borrows my knife. 

The girl is in school. 

She feeds her bird seeds. 

We play school at recess. 

The girl sits next to me in school. 

Frogs jump very far. 

We play tag in the yard. 

We are good boys. 

He lays his papers away neatly. 

We make our figures well. 

The teacher opens the window at recess. 

He thinks well of me. 

He drives a horse. 



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3. Put on the board the beginning of sentences, having the children fill 

them out orally and in writing : 

I drove. She drove. We drove. Papa drove. 

You drove. He drove. You, they, drove. My brother drove. 

The children fill out the sentences by saying, "I drove to town yester- 
day," "You drove to town," etc. 

For Copy and Dictation. 

Mary had a pony. She drove him to school. Tvpo little girls rode vpith her. The 
dog follov^^ed them to school. Mary made the dog go home. 

I went to school early yesterday. My brother was late. We learned two new songs. 
We played ball at recess. I threw the ball over the fence. A boy ran and got it. He 
gave it to me. 

Two boys went fishing. They caught some fish. They saw two frogs. The frogs 
- jumped into the water. They swam away out of sight. The boys carried the fish home. 

Alice went to the store. She bought some seed for her bird. She ran home. The 
bird saw Alice coming. He began to sing. She fed him the seed. He liked the seed very 
much. 

Hiawatha was an Indian boy. He lived in the forest. He loved the animals. He 
talked to the birds. He learned their language. The animals taught him many things. 

One day a little dog came to my house. I gave him two. bones. He drank some water. 
He stayed for a long time. He grew to be a big dog. 

The children went to the beach. They built forts in the sand. They saw two ships 
on the ocean. They threw rocks into the water. They found two pretty shells. 

TWO. 

1. Use the sentences in exercise 6 in the Second Grade work. Call on a 
child to read a sentence, then have him say : ' ' T — w — o, tivo, because it is 
the number two." 

2. Dictate : 

I walked two miles. Ned flew two kites. 

There are two birds in the tree. I saw two frogs. 

I have two apples. Mary ate two pieces of bread. 

Two boys ran a race. Tom caught two fish. 

Fred gave me two oranges. We borrowed two pencils. 

3. Write sentences using two before each of the following : 

oranges girls kittens 

dolls cats dogs 

boys apples ladies 

4. Look at the pictures in ''English Lessons, Book One." "Write sen- 
tences about these pictures, using two; as, "The little girl has two dogs." 
(Page 46.) 

5. Sentences for copy and dictation: 

There are two boys in the yard. I have lost my two new books. 

Did you meet those two girls? Where have those two boys gone? 

I know those two songs. Two of the girls spoke pieces. 

He bought two pair of shoes. I rode two miles last week. 

Will you buy these two flowers? He sold us two boxes of pears. 

Here are their two hats. The sum of two and two is four. 

I have two friends who live in the country. Their home is two miles from the station. 
Last summer I went there for two weeks. They had two horses. We drove them to 
town every day. When I left they asked me to come again and bring my two brothers 
with me. 

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One day two little boys ran away. They walked two miles. Soon they came to a 
forest. In the forest was a lake. The two boys fished in the lake. Harry caught two 
fish. Will didn't catch any. At two o'clock they went home. It took them two hours 
to walk back. 

CAPITALS. 

1. Ask the children for the names of people they know or have heard of. 
Write these in a column on the board. Get such names as Mary, Frank, 
Charlie, Roosevelt, Washington, and McKinley. Ask how all the names 
are alike. Notice the capital for each word. At the top of the column 
write people. 

Then ask for the names of places. This is the list : 
San Francisco California Oakland Chutes 

San Francisco Bay Cliff House Alameda Berkeley 

Make these into sentences, with the help of the children ; write them on 
the board, and have the children copy them. 

Mary is a little girl. We cross San Francisco Bay to reach 

Frank goes to school. Oakland and Alameda. 

Charlie is my brother. There are seals at the Chutes and the 

. Taft is the President of the United Cliff House. 

States. There are many flowers in Golden Gate 

San Francisco is the largest city in Park. 

California. 

2. Study these words at a regular spelling lesson. After they are 
mastered, the sentences of the first lesson may be dictated to the class. 

3. Ask the children to tell what street they live on. Tell the name of a 
long street in San Francisco. These may be written in a column, then 
sentences given about each. Copy: 

John lives on Sacramento street. Market street is a very long street. 

There is a car line on California street. Jackson street is very steep. 

Give these as spelling words, until they are mastered, then dictate the 
sentences. 

4. Have these questions answered in full sentences : 

Who is governor of California? What school do you attend? 

What is the largest city in California? On what street is it? 

On what bay do you ride from the ferry? Write the names of four streets in San 

At what places do you like to spend the Francisco, 
day? 

5. Make a good sentence about San Francisco ; California ; Washington ; 
Roosevelt; Sacramento street; Jackson street; Cliff House; Golden Gate 
Park; Oakland. 

6. Ask the children the day of the week ; write it on the board, and have 
them tell the day before, writing it above, and the next day, writing it after. 
In the same way get all the days of the week in their order. Then ask the 
children to think of something they have done, and the day of the week on 
which they did it. Write these sentences on the board, and have the children 
copy : , 

I played store Monday. We had vacation Friday. 

Mary and I went down street Tuesday. We played baseball at Golden Gate 

Mama bought me some candy Wednesday. Park Saturday. 

I rode to Golden Gate Park Thursday. I went to church Sunday. 

7. Use the words in spelling until they are learned, then dictate the 
sentences in exercise 7. (47) 



8. Sentences for copy and dictation: 

The Chutes and Cliff House are in San Francisco. 

John went to Berkeley last Saturday. 

I am going to Golden Gate Park next Saturday. 

Did you go to Alameda last Wednesday with those two girls? 

Oakland, Alameda, and Berkeley are across San Francisco Bay. 

California is the State in which we live. 

I know two girls who live on Sacramento street. 

May I go to the Cliff House with Mary next Sunday? 

Frank and Grace aren't going with us next Thursday. 

Isn't Frank going to Alameda Friday with our two cousins? 

9. Tell these stories to the children for reproduction : 

Mary Gray is a little girl who lives in Oakland. She has a cousin named Charlie, 
who lives in San Francisco, near the Chutes. One day Mary came to make Charlie a 
visit. They went to Golden Gate Park in the afternoon. They sat on the soft, green 
grass. They ran races. They watched the squirrels hiding nuts and the monkeys playing 
in the swings. 

The next day Charlie's mama took them to the Cliff House. Charlie had a dog named 
Carlo. They took Carlo with them. They had great fun running over the sand. But 
Charlie ran too near the water, and fell in. Carlo pulled him out, and carried him up on 
the sand. They called Carlo a hero. The next day Mary crossed the San Francisco 
Bay to Oakland. 

Joe was a little boy who lived on Sacramento street. There was to be a circus in 
San Francisco, and Joe wanted to go. The parade was to be along Market street, on 
Saturday morning. Joe was very happy, for he did not have to go to school that day. 
Early in the morning he walked down Powell street, and found a good place on the 
corner. Before long the parade came by, and Joe followed it to the tents. He wanted 
to go in, but he did not have enough money. A workman saw him, and said, "I need a 
boy to help me water the elephants. I will give you a ticket if you will do it." Joe was 
glad to do it, and worked hard. Then the man gave him a ticket. He had a fine time, 
and told his mother all about it. 

For copy and dictation : 

Grace lives in San Francisco. Her home is near Golden Gate Park. Last Saturday 
she went to Berkeley to visit her cousin, Helen. Sunday the two girls rode to Oakland. 
Next week Helen will visit Grace. They will go to the Chutes and also to the Cliff 
House. 

Last Saturday we left San Francisco early in the morning to take a trip around San 
Francisco Bay. We visited Oakland and Alameda. Then we went to Berkeley and ate 
our lunch there. In the afternoon we returned to San Francisco. We took a drive 
through Golden Gate Park to the Cliff House. 

CAPITALS FOR HOLIDAYS. 

1. Get the names of the holidays from the children. Make a list on the 
board. Call attention to the capital letters. Teach the words as if it were 
a spelling lesson. When the children can write them in a list from dicta- 
tion, have sentences made, write them on the board, and have them copied. 

2. Use the following sentences for copy and study, then for dictation : 

Did you have a good ttme Fourth of July? 

We will have a picnic May Day. 

Did you see the parade Labor Day? 

Admission Day is a holiday. 

We sang many songs Washington's Birthday. 

We took flowers to the soldiers' graves Decoration Day. 

Christmas is the happiest day of the year. 

New Year's Day is the first day of the year. 

We eat turkey for dinner Thanksgiving Day. 

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3. Write the name of the holiday in January, in February, in May, in 
July, in November, in December. "What two holidays come in September? 
Make a sentence about each holiday. 

4. Sentences for copy and dictation : 

We crossed San Francisco Bay Admission Day. 

Charles went to Alameda Washington's Birthday. 

Last year New Year's Day came on Wednesday. 

I'm going to Golden Gate Park Decoration Day. 

We went to Berkeley Thanksgiving Day. 

Will Christmas come on Saturday? 

My two sisters are going to the Cliff House Labor Day. 

Isn't May Day a holiday? 

Did he walk two miles Fourth of July? 

Fourth of July Alice went to visit her grandma. She wasn't home. Alice then took 
a walk in the pretty garden. There were all kinds of flowers there. She rested for a 
short time, lying on the grass. Then her grandma returned. Alice ran to meet her. 
She gave her grandma the flowers which she had picked. Alice stayed until Admission 
Day. Then she went home. 

John lived in the country. He went to the country school. Sometimes if he wasn't 
too tired he would walk to school. More often he rode. When Christmas Day came 
the country was covered with snow. School was now closed. When May Day came the 
school had its picnic. They went for a long ride in a hay wagon. John always looked 
for Admission Day and Labor Day to come. On these two days his father would take 
him hunting. 



MONTHS OF THE YEAR. 

1. The months of the year are taught in exactly the same way as the days 

of the week, except that the sentences tell the holidays which come in the 

different months ; as, 

New Year's Day is in January. There is no holiday in August. 

Washington's Birthday is in February. Admission Day and Labor Day come in 

Mary's birthday is in March. September. 

John's birthday is in April. October has thirty-one days. 

May Day is the first-day of May. Thanksgiving Day comes in November. 

June is a sunny month. Christmas is in December. 

Fourth of July is a noisy day. 

2. Have them copy, and then take from dictation, the rhyme : 

Thirty days hath September, 

April, June, and November. 

All the rest have thirty-one, 

Save February, which alone 

Hath twenty-eight, and one day more 

We add to it one year in four. 

3. Have the pupils copy the following sentences, filling in the blanks : 

is the first month of the year. Decoration Day is in the month of . 

Washington's Birthday is in . Santa Claus comes in . 

The roses bloom in . School begins in . 

Thanksgiving comes in the month of — . My birthday is in — . 



4. Have' the pupils tell you the names of the summer months, the winter 
months, the rainy months, the warmest month, etc., then have them written 
in sentence form; as, ''June, July, and August are the summer months." 

5. Write in sentences the names of the months in which the birthdays of 
your family occur. 

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6. Sentences for copy and dictation : 

John came to San Francisco in August. 

Did those two girls go to Berkeley last October? 

I'm not going to Alameda until April. 

Mary and Jane came to California in September. 

December is the last month of the year. 

We do not come to school in July. 

May we go to Oakland next January? 

7. Write in sentences the months in which these holidays occur : 
Washington's Birthday Labor Day Thanksgiving Day 



Decoration Day 
St. Valentine's Day 
Fourth of July. 



Lincoln's Birthday 
Easter Sunday 
Admission Day 



St. Patrick's Day 



8. Dictate the sentences in exercise 1. 



Devices for Review. 

Months of the Year. Days of the Week. Holidays. 

1. Have the children write: (1) The months of the year in order. 
(2) The days of the week in order. (3) The names of the holidays as 
they come in the months. (4) Ten sentences using in each the name of 
one holiday and a month of the year. (5) Five sentences using in each the 
name of a day of the week and a holiday. 

2. Have the following sentences copied and studied, then use them for 
dictation : 



Christmas comes in December. 

The last Thursday in November is 
Thanksgiving Day. 

We are glad when Washington's Birth- 
day comes on Friday. 

The girls will stay with us Monday 
and Tuesday. . 



We went away Admission Day. 
They left the city May Day. 
The flowers were beautiful Easter Sunday. 
Wednesday is a busy day. 
The winter months are December, Janu- 
ary, and February. 
There is no school Saturday. 



Past Tense of Verbs. Capitals. 
3. Put on the board the past tense of the verbs in the list on page 45. 
Have the children write sentences using the names of three people they 
know, the names of three streets, the names of four places they have been, 
and all the words in the list ; as, 

Mary saw a squirrel yesterday. The boy threw a ball on Main street. 



4. Dictate: 

Mary went to school. 

Charlie ate his lunch at the park. 

He gave us a trip across San Francisco 

Bay. 
She did her work in Oakland. 
In Alameda many flowers grew. 
Mary threw the ball to John. 
On Monday our cat caught a mouse. 
I knew many people in Sacramento. 
The boy broke his arm in October. 



George Washington fought many battles. 
He rode his horse Tuesday. 
Frank sold his horse last February. 
He swam in the ocean in July. 
The children sang at the May festival. 
Their house was built in January. 
We began geography on Wednesday. 
The last week in June we spoke our 
pieces. 



5. Write two sentences about President Taft, George Washington, and 
Walter Brown, using the past tense of the following verbs : see, come, give, 
speak, fight, ride. 

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6. Write sentences using the names of the months of the year and. the 
past tense of the following verbs : learn, are, play, make, drive, run, win, 
fly, say, lend. 

Past Tense of Verbs. Capitals. Two. 

7. Have the children study these sentences ; then dictate them : 

Were there not two boys in the yard Saturday? 

Each child will bring two apples to school Wednesday. 

We fed the birds seeds Saturday. 

The boys planted two rows of seeds in April. 

The farmer made his hay last June. 

Apples are ripe in October. 

He laid his two papers aSvay Friday evening. 

She came up Sacramento street to the schoolhouse. 

We will try to go either Thursday or Saturday. 

8. Sentences for copy and dictation : 

I took my cousin to Alameda last New Year's Day. 

John didn't know his lesson last Wednesday. 

Did she cross San Francisco Bay Decoration Day? 

There were many boys and girls in Golden Gate Park Washington's 

Birthday. 
May I go to Berkeley with Charles next Admission Day? 
These two new books were bought in Oakland last Saturday. 
Isn't your sister going to meet you in San Francisco? 
There are some very pretty flowers to be found in California. 
Charles crosses San Francisco Bay every Tuesday. 
Doesn't he live in San Francisco, California? 



DATES IN SENTENCES. 

1. Ask a child to give in a sentence the exact date of his next birthday. 
Write the sentence on the board. Call attention to the capital letters, and 
the comma. It is better form not to abbreviate the names of the months. 
Many of the children will be anxious to give the dates of their birthdays, 
and some of them may be allowed to write them upon the board. If a 
selection is made, all the months may thus be reviewed. Have the children 
copy these sentences, and study them. They may then be used for dictation. 

2. Use the following dates in sentences : 

July 4, 1776. February 22, 1906. April 1, 1907. 

December 25, 1907. January 1, 1908. September 9, 1906. 

May 1, 1905. 

3. Use in sentences the dates of all the holidays you know. 

4. Use in sentences the dates of the birthdays of the members of your 
family. 

5. Call the attention of the children to the use of the commas in these 

sentences : 

We will go Saturday, January 3, 1908. 

Last Christmas came on Tuesday, December 25, 1906. 

Our last vacation ended Sunday, April 7, 1907. 

6. Have the children make up sentences using the name of day of the 
week and a date. If the year does not follow the month and day, the date 
should be written January 3, December 25, April 7. When the number of 

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the day of the month precedes the month it should appear as 3d January, 
25th December, 7th April. When the year is given a comma only is used, 
as in the sentences above. 

7. Use the following sentences for study and dictation : 

We shall have no school Wednesday, June S, 1907. 

The people took their children away to the country August 8, 1906. 

We hope Washington's Birthday will come Friday. 

Our next holiday will be Decoration Day. 

It comes Thursday, May 30, 1907. 

8. Sentences for copy and dictation : 

I'm going to Berkeley Tuesday, November 3. 

He came to San Francisco Wednesday, January 25, 1909. 

Admission Day will be Saturday, September 9. 

Walter didn't come to school Thursday, August 10, 1908. 

Does May Day come Friday, May 1. 

May I go to Alameda Monday, April 23? 

Last Thanksgiving Day came Thursday, November 28. 

Mary and I are going to Golden Gate Park Sunday, July IS, 1909. 

Our next holiday will be May Day, May 1, 1909. 

New Year's Day comes the 1st of January. 

We shall meet again at the Cliff House Friday, August 15. 

My father will buy two lots in Berkeley next Monday, October 7. 

Peace was declared Thursday, April 10, 1882. 

Come to Alameda the 27th of May. 

Did John cross San Francisco Bay the 23d of August? 

Sunday, May 1, 1908, Mary and some friends went to the Cliff House on a picnic. It 
was May Day. Mary lived in Berkeley. She had to cross San Francisco Bay early in 
the morning. Her friends lived near Golden Gate Park. The children had such a good 
time. They would like to go on a picnic every holiday. Next Saturday will be 
Admission Day. Then they will go to the Chutes. 

My name is Alice. I live in San Francisco. One day my mother and I went to 
Berkeley to see my brother. I played many games with two girls. We played rope. 
We rode on horseback for two miles. We picked flowers on the roadside. We came 
home very late. I came back to San Francisco Thursday, November 4. When I came 
home I went to Golden Gate Park. I saw many pretty birds there. I fed them some seed. 

Bobbie came running home from school. He told his mama that school would close 
Friday, May 28, 1908. Bobbie lived in San Francisco on California street. He wanted 
to go to see Fred, who lives in Alameda. So Saturday, May 29, he crossed San Fran- 
cisco Bay. Fred was very glad to see Bobbie. Sunday, May 31, was Decoration Day. 
Th_p two boys took some flowers to the graves. Don't you think they were kind? 

ABBREVIATIONS. 

1. Put on the board the following sentences, omitting the parts in 

parentheses : 

My father is called (Mr. Smith). My sister is called (Miss Smith). 

My mother is called (Mrs. Smith). Our doctor is called (Dr. Jones). 

Call on the children to finish out the sentence, and show them that Mr. 
is an abbreviation or short way of writing Mister. Tell them that it is 
always written with a capital letter and is followed by a period. In the 
same way discuss Mrs., the abbreviation for Misses or Mistress, and Dr., 
the abbreviation for Doctor. Let them see that Miss is so short that no 
abbreviation is necessary, so it is not followed by a period. Have them 
copy these sentences from the board substituting the names of their own 
families. 

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2. Copy the following sentences, putting in the proper marks : 

Mrs Smith called to-day Mr Smith went to town Wednesday 

Miss Brown is our teacher My mother visited Mrs Wade yesterday 

Dr Jones went to see the sick lady 

■ 3. Sentences for copy and dictation: 

Mr. Jones came to San Francisco Washington's Birthday. 

We are going to Berkeley with Mrs. Smith Wednesday, February 23. 

Did Dr. Brown go to Alameda Tuesday, September 4, 1908? 

John and James went to Golden Gate Park Admission Day with Miss Green. 

Dr. Black and Mr. Bell left California Friday, August 18. 

May I go to Oakland with Mrs. Thompson Thursday, October 22, 1909. 

Miss Myers, Mr. Wilson, and Mrs. Black came to our house last Decoration Day. 

We crossed San Francisco Bay last Fourth of July with Mr. and Mrs. Roberts. 

Their father came to our house last Wednesday with Mr. Jones. 

Did you hear that Miss Bell has gone to Alameda? 

Mr. Brown bought his two boys a coaster. They coasted down the Berkeley Hills. 
Mrs. Brown told them not to go too fast. Miss Brown was watching them. She saw the 
coaster turn over and the two boys were thrown off. Charlie had broken his arm. 
Mrs. Brown took him at once to Dr. Smith in Oakland. 

Last night there was a fire near our house. Mr. Jones owned the store. Mts. Jones 
and her daughter were upstairs. Dr. Fisher thought his house would burn, too. The 
firemen saved it. They carried Mrs. and Miss Jones down a ladder. Don't you think 
they were brave? 

CONTRACTIONS. 

Review the work of the Second Grade in "Contractions." See page 32. 

1. In the same way teach can't, won't, wouldn't, didn't, haven't, hasn't, 
wasn't, doesn't, couldn't. 

2. Sentences for copy and dictation : 

She can't come to school. He hasn't any coat. 

He won't run away. They can't sing the song. 

I wouldn't rob a nest. They haven't come to town. 
He didn't go to the concert. 

3. Questions to be answered in the nagative: 

Can she sing? Would you do it? 

Will he play ball to-morrow? Can he tie the horse? 

Has she a new dress ?» Can he climb a tree? 

Can he do his examples? Will he sell his pony? 

Have they come home? Have they many cows? 
Did they tell you about it? 

4. Sentences to be made with : 

isn't aren't can't I'm didn't 

hasn't wouldn't haven't won't 

5. Write the contractions for each of the following : 

is not are not can not could not I am 

did not has not would not have not will not 

6. Change to contracted form the italicized words : 

They are not working hard. George Washington toould not tell a lie. 

Frogs have not any time to play. She could not treat her badly. 

The boys loill not go away. The birds did not have a nest. 

She has not finished her lesson. The children are not in school. 

I am not willing to go. The baby is not walking yet. 

A tortoise can not learn to fly. 

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(. Sentences for copy, punctuation or dictation: 

Mr. Smith didn't take his two boys to San Francisco Admission Day. 

Won't you come to oui" party Thursday, November 7? 

Why couldn't Miss Brown come here last Saturday? 

John can't go to Berkeley with us next Wednesday, May 3. 

Dr. Black wasn't at their house Labor Day, Monday, September 7, 1909. 

They aren't going to be there Tuesday, August 1. 

Mr. and Mrs. Wilson haven't been here since last Washington's Birthday. 

Isn't he going to Golden Gate Park St. Valentine's Day? 

Miss Black doesn't live in San Francisco. 

Hasn't their brother been here since Lincoln's Birthday? 



TOO. 

1. "Tell me what Miss Lynch said about your singing this morning." 

Write the sentence on the board, "We sang too loudly this morning." 

"Now, I will tell you something else you did this morning. You sang too 

slowly. You talked too much. ' ' Write these on the board, underlining too. 

Make sentences, using these words : 

too hard too far too old too slowly too deep 

too long too easy too low too softly too noisy 

too much too high too dear too quickly too small 

2. Copy, underlining too: 

We worked too hard. He jumped too high. He walked too slowly. 

We played too long. He was too old to "work. He sang too softly. 

We ran too much. The fence is too low. He thought too qiuckly. 

We walked too far. He paid too dear for the The water was too deep. 

The work was too easy. whistle. The boys were too noisy. 

3. Have them make sentences, using too before each of the following 

words : 

fast well hard long near far 

young much many small large broad 

4. Dictate ten sentences from exercise 1. 

5. Have them answer these questions, using too in the answer : 

Why did the tortoise win the race? Why do you not go home for your lunch? 

Why didn't Goldilocks eat papa bear's Why didn't the boy do his examples this 

mush? morning? 

Why didn't she sit in papa bear's chair? Why couldn't the fox get the grapes? 

Why didn't she lie in mama bear's bed? Why was the boy drowned in the river? 

Why couldn't the fox get out of the well? Why didn't the girl come to school yesterday? 

6. Write ten sentences containing too. Have some of the sentences read 
aloud. 

The Woodpecker. 

There was an old woman who lived on a hill. She always wore a black 
dress, white apron, and a red cap. She lived all alone. 

One morning she was making cakes. An old man came to the door. He 
asked her for a cake to eat. He had no money, but he said, "You may have 
whatever you wish for." 

The old lady looked at her cakes. She thought them too large to give 
away. So she made a smaller one. When this was done she thought it too 
large, also. So she baked another one. The last was only as big as a 
pinhead, but even that looked too nice. She would not give it to him. She 
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When the poor old man had gone she felt sorry. She knew that she had 
done wrong. She said to herself, ' ' I wish I were a bird so I could give him 
the largest cake. ' ' Soon she felt herself getting smaller and smaller. She 
was just as large as a bird and looked like one, too. She still wore her black 
dress, white apron, and red cap. People call her a woodpecker. 

7. Fill in blanks with two — to — too. 

Those girls couldn't come Tuesday, August 1, see their friends. 

miles is — — — • far walk. 

Did you carry those books school last Wednesday? 

On their way school girls ate much candy. 

My sister is young come • school. 

She took her brothers Golden Gate Park Labor Day. 

Did she stay ■ long in Berkeley last April? 

Those boys were noisy Wednesday, October 2, 1908. 

Miss Smith said that we were noisy last Tuesday. 

I live — far from school go home for lunch. 

Saturday, June 5, a little boy came to the seashore. His two sisters came, too. 
He tried to run around and jump, but he soon became too tired. Then he dug holes in 
the sand. He couldn't dig them too deep because the sand was too hard. His mother 
bought him a big spoon from Mrs. Smith. Monday, October 2, 1909, his mother told 
him they must go back to Berkeley. The little boy thought his vacation was too short. 
He told all his friends at the seashore, "Good-bye" and returned home. He was not 
too late to begin school. 

It was Thanksgiving Day. The children were going to see their grandma. Baby 
wanted to go, too. But mama said it was enough for the two boys to go. Baby was 
too small. Grandma lived too far away. Mama kissed the two boys good-bye. She told 
them not to stay too long. They came home Wednesday, November 30. 

Willie and John are going to coast down a hill. Willie has a little brother. He 
wants to go, too. Willie told him it was too cold and he couldn't go. The little boy began 
to cry. The two boys were very sorry. 



Devices for Review. 

1. Write in sentences the names of five people. Write in sentences the 
names of five streets. 

2. Write five question about the picture on page 31, "English Lessons, 
Book One." 

3. Answer in complete sentences these questions : 

What is, your name? 

What is the name of your father? (Give his initials.) 

What is the name of your mother ? 

What is the name of your teacher? 

Who is the President of the United States? 

4. Learn the following rhyme and write it from memory: 

How many days has baby to play? 
Saturday, Sunday, Monday, 

Tuesday, Wednesday, 

Thursday, Friday, 
Saturday, Sunday, Monday. 

5. Write questions which these sentences answer : 

A mouse eats cheese. September 3, 1906, was my last birthday. 

The nuts are falling now. Wednesday is a hard word to spell. 

Lemons are yellow. Cherries grow on pretty trees. 

Rice is brought from China. He does not like to play ball. 

Washington's Birthday is a holidas*. There are two boxes on the table. 

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6. Write in a sentence the date of your last birthday. Write in a sentence 
the date of to-day ; of to-morrow. 

Write a complete sentence about each of these events using the dates in 

the second column: 

Washington's Birthday February 22, 1906 

Fourth of July July 4, 177G 

Christmas December 25, 1907 

New Year's Day January 1, 1908 

Admission Day September 9, 1907 

7. Make a list of ten contractions. Write sentences containing each. 

TEACH, TAUGHT, TEACHING. 

1. "liow many have pets at home? What pets have you? Do they 

know how to do any tricks? Who taught them? How did you do it?" 

Have this preliminary talk with the children, keeping their attention, not 

so much on the tricks as on the teaching of them. Then have them give 

sentences telling what tricks they have taught, what their older brother has 

taught, what their father has taught, what any one is teaching now. Write 

the following sentences on the board, underline the word taught, and have 

the .children copy them : 

I taught my dog to carry the paper. My brother taught his dog to bark at 

I taught my dog to speak for meat. tramps. 

I taught my cat not to bite me. My sister taught her cat to wear ribbon 

I taught my bird to eat from my hand. on her neck. 

Mama taught the cat to stay outside. My brother taught the bird to answer 

Papa taught the dog to bring back the when he said "Sweet." 
ducks when he went shooting. 

2. Have them tell what they have taught the baby at home to do ; what 
papa has taught them ; what mama has taught them. 

Who teaches you arithmetic ; geography ? Who teaches you in Sunday-school ? Who 
taught you to row a boat; to swim? Who teaches the boys to be soldiers? Who teaches 
the boys on the training ship? 

Who teaches the animals at the circus? What do they teach them? How do they 
teach them? 

Who teaches the baby rabbits to run from danger? Who teaches the kittens to catch 
mice? Who teaches the baby birds to fly? Do you know of any other animal that 
teaches her young? What does she teach them? How does she do it? 

Do you play school? Who is the teacher? What does she teach you? 

Does any one help you with your lessons nights at home? Who teaches you? 

3. Have them write on the board sentences from exercise 2. Have each 
child read his sentences aloud. Copy ten of the best on the board, give the 
class time to study, then dictate them ; as. 

The lady is teaching me at Sunday- He taught the seal to sit at the table. 

school. The mama bird taught the little birds 
Miss Smith teaches us geography. how to fly. 

The captain teaches the soldiers how When we play school, I am the teacher. 

to march. I teach the" children how to spell. 

The man taught the elephant to play My sister teaches me at home nights. 

the drum. Mama is teaching me to sew. 

4. Have them write three sentences, telling what they could teach a horse 
to do ; three, telling what they could teach a dog to do ; three, telling what 
their teacher teaches them every day. 

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5. Write three sentences with the word teach; three with taught; three 
with teaching. Have these sentences read aloud, ten of the best put on the 
board, studied and dictated. 

6. Tell them the story of the tortoise that wanted the eagle to teach him 
to flj (^sop's Fables). 

An excellent story is "Megaleep, the Wanderer," by Wm. J. Long, m 
Wilderness Ways, pages 10-21— an account of a caribou school and how the 
little ones are taught. The story of "Raggylug," by Ernest Thompson- 
Seton, also has many interesting accounts of what a rabbit must be taught. 

7. Fill in the blanl^ in the following : 

Miss Brown me geography last Wednesday. 

Didn't Mrs. Black our class Friday, August 6, 1908? 

She couldn't John his spelling last St. Valentine's Day. 

Miss Wilson ■ their class for two weeks. 

Haven't you your dog to carry the paper, George? 

Mrs. Bell our class last Easter Sunday. 

Is Mary the baby to walk? 

Who this class Tuesday, October 22? 

Mr. Jones • his dog to sit up. 

Isn't Dr. Smith his dog to speak for meat? 

HOW TO WRITE THE TIME OF DAY. 

1. The children are usually interested in this subject, if the teacher 
simply states at the beginning of the lesson that she will show them how 
to Avrite the time of day. "Tell me in a sentence what time it is now." 
" It is half past ten, ' ' the child replies. The teacher then says, ' ' We usually 
write that this way," then she writes on the board : 

It is now 10.30. 
Say to the class: In order to tell whether I mean ten-thirty at night or 
ten-thirty in the morning, I must put tw^o letters after the number. This 
is the way the sentence should read : 

It is now 10.30 a. m. 

The children may be told that these letters are abbreviations of two Latin 
words meaning before noon. As they are abbreviations they must be fol- 
lowed by periods. A. M. (capitals) means Master of Arts; P. M. (capitals) 
means Postmaster, so it is better to write both a. m. and p. m. with small 
letters. A period between the hour and minutes is now considered better 
form than a colon. 

Have the children give various sentences in answer to such questions as : 

"At what time does school begin?" "School begins at nine o'clock." 

(When o'clock follows it is better to write out the nine, although it is not 

incorrect the other way.) "School begins at 9 a. m." In the same way 

get such sentences as : 

School closes at 3.15 p. m. The boat leaves at 5.15 p. m. 

Church service begins at eleven o'clock. I get up in the morning at seven o'clock. 

Church service begins at 11 a. m. I get up at 7.30 a. m. 

I reach home at 3.30 p. m. I go to bed at 8.30 p. m. 

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2. Show the children how to write the sentence if the date comes before 
the time; as, 

The boat leaves January 3, 1907, at 8.30 p. m. 

I 

Or, if the year is omitted. 

The boat leaves January 3 at 8.30 p. m. 

Then if the day of the week is used, it comes first in order, and the sentence 
is written this way : 

The boat leaves Wednesday, January 3, at 6.30 p. m. 

3. Sentences for copy, study, and dictation : 

Is 10.30 a. m. too late to go? 

We missed the 5.30 train. 

I came to school at 8.30 a. m. 

The two boj's came at nine o'clock this morning. 

The parade vs^ill pass at 9.30. 

I shall leave for my vacation Friday, June 14, 1906, on the 5.30 p. m. train. 

The boat will leave at 6.30 a. m. Wednesday. 

Is 2.30 p. m. too late to go? 

Do you go to bed at 8.30 p. m. every night? 

Nine o'clock is too late to go. 

4. Use the f olio win sj in sentences : 



12.30 p. m. 


nine o'clock 


0.30 a. m. 


1.30 p. m. 


8 a. m. 


twelve o'clock 


11 a. m. 


10.30 p. m. 



5. Write the following as they are usually written in sentences : 

Twenty-five minutes after five. Twelve o'clock. 

Fifteen minutes before nine. Three in the afternoon. 

Ten o'clock. Half past ten in the morning. 

6. Sentences for copy, punctuation or dictation : 

Mr. Jones came to San Francisco Lincoln's Birthday at 9 a. m. 

Didn't Miss Smith come here Wednesday, April 26, 1909, at 2.30 p. m. 

Dr. Black came to our house Admission Day at five o'clock. 

Mr. and Mrs. Thompson took their two children to Berkeley Thursday, November 28, 
1908, on the 10 a. m. boat. 

We are going to Golden Gate Park Tuesday, August 1, at three o'clock. 

There were two books on this table Christmas Day at 3.15 p. m. 

May we go to their party New Year's Day at one o'clock? 

We can't leave school next Friday until 3.20 p. m. 

Did you hear that Mrs. Green had been there Saturday, October 2, at 10 a. m. ? 

Where were their books last Thanksgiving Day at three o'clock. 

John threw his ball through that hole Tuesday, August 17, at 4.20 p. m. 

Tuesday, May 30, 1909, was Decoration Day. We had planned to go to the Cliff 
House with Mrs. Brown. It was 9.30 a. m. when we started. We took a Sacramento 
street car, and arrived at 10 a. m. For a few hours we went in wading, and at twelve 
o'clock ate lunch. After lunch we built forts in the sand. It was about five o'clock 
when we started home. 

One morning Louise arose at 6 a. m. She went into the garden and picked some 
pretty flowers. At seven o'clock she went into the house and ate breakfast. At nine 
o'clock she and her mother started for Berkeley. They took the 9.40 boat. It was 10.20 
a. m. when they arrived there. At five o'clock they returned to San Francisco. As she 
was very tired, Louise went to bed at 8 p. m. 



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Devices for Review. 

1. Sentences for copy, study, and dictation : 
I come to school every Monday at 8.30 a. m. 

Do you go to Sunday-school? 

The children will march in the parade Fourth of July. 

The parade will start at nine o'clock. 

We shall go on the 2 p. m. train. 

Dr. Smith will not leave until Wednesday, February 3, at 8.20 p. m. 

The children will meet Saturday at 9.30 a. m. 

Miss Brown went at three o'clock. 

May I go to the Christmas tree to-morrow? 

The boy had two books New Year's Day. 

School will close for the vacation Friday. June 14, 1907. 

Admission Day is a holiday. 

2. Write a sentence telling on what day and what time of day Mrs. Jones 
will go to Oakland. 

Write a sentence containing the name of a holiday and a month of the 
year. 

Write a sentence telling what time in the morning Mr. Jones goes to work. 

Tell what holiday comes next and in what month it comes. 

On what holiday do we decorate the soldiers ' graves ? 

Tell in one sentence the name of the city you live in, and the state. 

Tell in one sentence the city and state in which you were born, and the 
date. 

Write a question containing the time of day. 

Write a question containing a date. 

3. Sentences for copy, punctuation, and dictation : 
Were their books here Wednesday, September 3, at 2.20 p. m. ? 
We are going to church Easter Sunday at 11 a. m. 

Mr. Jones couldn't leave for Alameda Thursday. October 12, 1908, on the two o'clock boat. 
Which of these two boys came to San Francisco Saturday, April 4, at 8 a. m.? 
Are they going to bring some of their books to our house Washington's Birthday? 
I didn't know that you were going to Berkeley Decoration Day at 3.15 p. m. 
Those two boys went too far last Labor Day. Monday, the 7th of November. 
Couldn't they buy their hats in Oakland, California? 

Mrs. Black took her two children to Golden Gate Park Thursday, August. 18, 1908, 
at 10 a. m. 

Dr. Brown and Miss Green haven't been here since last Lincoln's Birthday. 

SIT, SAT, SITTING. 

1. Say to the class : ' ' Five children sit in the first row. How many sit in 
the second ? in the third ? Who sits behind you ? in front of you ? at your 
right ? at your left ? Where do you sit in church ? Where do you like best 
to sit in school ? in the theater ? Who sits next you at the table ? Where 
does the baby sit?" 

Write the answers to these questions on the board and have them read 
aloud and copied. 

2. Write these directions on the board, have them read, the acts per- 
formed, and then have told what was done : 

Sit in the third seat of the first row. Sit in the chair in the northeast corner. 

Sit in the chair on the east side of the Sit on the box by the stove. 

I'ooDi- Sit in the chair under the clock. 

Sit in the chair by the north window. Sit in the chair at the end of my desk. 

Sit on the longest bench in the room. 
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3. Have these read aloud and copied: 

I sat in the third seat of the first row. She sat on the box by the stove. 

I sat in the chair on the east side of Mama sat by me in church. 

the room. Baby sat on mama's lap. 

Tom sat in the chair by the north The girls sat together to-day. 

window. I like to sit in the back seat. 

He sat on the longest bench in the room. Tom likes to sit with me. 

4. Fill in the blanks : 

John in this seat last Wednesday at one o'clock. 

Did she ■ here Monday, February 21, 1909? 

Where were these two girls St. Valentine's' Day at 10.20 a. m. ? 

Mrs. Black ■ by me in church Easter Sunday. 

Last Tuesday Miss Brown told me to in the front seat. 

Wouldn't Dr. Jones let you • by the open window? 

I . in that chair for one whole hour last Decoration Day. 

Were you here Saturday, January 18, at 9 a. m.? 

LIE, LIES, LAY. 

Purpose and Method. — The purpose here is to establish a feeling in the 
child so that he may, without conscious thought, associate the word lie and 
its past tense lay with the act of reclining. He may be told to use lie when 
it means to recline, but it is doubtful if he associates the act with the word. 

The method is the same as with the other verbs — the conditions are given, 
the word is associated with it, and then by repetition the habit is formed. 

1. Have pictures of various animals lying down to rest, or going to sleep 
for the winter. Say to the children : ' ' Have you ever seen a dog lie down 
to rest ? Tell me how he does it. How does a cat lie down ? Look at these 
pictures and tell me how each animal lies to rest." The best sentences 
given should be read aloud and copied by the children ; as, 

The horse lies on his side with his head The cat likes to lie in the sunshine to 

stretched out. sleep. 

Sometimes the cat lies with her feet The dog lies on his side with his head 

folded under her. on the ground. 

Sometimes she lies on her side with her The polar bear lies on the ice to sleep. 

head between her paws. The elephant does not lie down to sleep. 

The cow kneels down on her front feet The chipmunk lies rolled up in a little 

before she lies down. round ball. 
The pig lies down in the shade to sleep. 

2. Dictate the following sentences: 

I lie on the grass to rest. The horse lies in the shade. 

Mother lies on the couch to rest. My coat lies on the seat during the day. 

The Romans used to lie down to eat. My hat lies on the table while I work. 
The baby lies in his cradle to sleep. 

3. Have the children recall what was talked about the first day ; then say, 
''Tell me where the horse lay while he slept; the cat; the cow; the chip- 
munk ; the pig ; the dog ; the polar bear. ' ' 

Write these sentences on the board and have the class read aloud and 

copy : 

The horse lay on his side to sleep. The chipmunk lay last winter rolled up in 
The cat lay with her paws folded. a ball. 

The cow lay asleep in the shade of the The cat lay asleep on the branch of a tree, 

tree. The polar bear lay on the ice to sleep. 

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4. Have the children change the sentences of exercise 2 so that they will 
refer to yesterday. 

5. Have the children answer the following questions, if they are familiar 

with the stories : 

What did Goldilocks do when she went upstairs in the bears' house? 

What did the rabbit do while the turtle was walking along? 

What was the lion doing when he put his paw on the mouse? 

What was the dog doing in the manger? 

What was the wolf doing when Red Riding Hood got to her grandma's? 

What did Molly Cottontail tell Rag to do while she was away? 

6. Say to the class, "When mama wishes baby to stop playing and go to 
sleep, she says, 'Lie down now and go to sleep.' If the baby gets up and 
then lies down, mama says, 'Lie still, baby.' Tell me what you say to your 
dog when you wish him to lie down; when you wish him to lie quietly. 
What did the man at the circus say to the elephant when he made him lie 
down? What does mama say when she does not wish baby to lie on the 
wet ground, or on the floor?" 

Write these sentences on the board, have the class read them aloud, and 
then copy them : 

Lie down, baby, and go to sleep. The man said to the elephant, "Lie down." 

Lie down, Rover, and play dead. Do not lie on the wet ground. 

Lie still on the bed. Do not lie on the floor. 

7. Dictate these sentences : 

I like to lie on the grass in the shade. Lie down, Rover and play dead. 

Mama lay down yesterday to rest. Do not lie on the wet ground. 

Baby lay in his cradle asleep when I The dog was lying in the manger. 

got home yesterday. Lie quietly while you sleep. 

My hat lay on the desk. I lay on the grass at the park watching 
The wolf was lying in grandma's bed. the boys play ball. 

8. Have the children make two sentences containing lie, lay, lying. 

9. Tell that part of the story about "The Three Bears" where Goldilocks 
was upstairs and where the three bears came home and what they said 
upstairs. Have the children reproduce it orally, then in writing. Follow 
by correction of errors. 

The Dog in the Manger. 
Once a dog was lying inia manger full of hay. A hungry ox came to eat 
the hay. The dog got up and snarled at him. ' ' Well, ' ' said the ox, ' ' you 
can not eat the hay yourself, and you will not let any one else eat it. ' ' 

The Travelers and the Bear. 
Two men were walking through a forest. They agreed to help each other 
if any wild animals came. Soon a big bear rushed out' at them. One man 
was light and nimble. He forgot his promise, and ran as fast as he could 
to a tree. The other man could not run fast. He lay down flat on his face 
and held his breath. The bear came up and smelled of him, but took him 
for dead, and ran off to the wood. The man in the tree came down. He 
said. "What did the bear tell you as you lay on the ground?" "He told 
me," said the other one, "never to trust you again." 

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10. Fill in the blanks: 

Dr. Black told us not to ou the wet grass. 

Did you down last Wednesday at 8 p. m. ? 

Mr. Jones down to rest Tuesday, July 10, at five o'clock. 

Their books on this desk Lincoln's Birthday at 9.30 a. m. 

Were you down when Miss Jones called? 

The squirrel down in the wood. 

Didn't your mother down to rest Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 1908. 

My hat here Admission Day at 2.20 p. m. 

For cop3^ and dictation : 

Saturday some children went to the Park. It was May Day. Some of the children 
played games. Some didn't want to play. They sat on the grass and watched the others. 
All the children sat on the grass to eat their lunches. After lunch they lay on the grass 
to rest. While they were lying down they watched the other children play. They didn't 
rest very long, for it was soon time to go home. They started at four o'clock. 

Sunday, July 4, 190S, Mary went to Oakland. She took her pet dog with her. His 
name was Jack. They went to a large park. Mary sat on the grass and watched the 
children play. Then she taught Jack some tricks. She taught him to run after a ball. 
Soon he grew tired. He lay on the grass and went to sleep. While he was lying there 
Mary ran away. When Jack woke up he couldn't find her. Soon he found her lying 
on the grass. At four o'clock Mary and Jack went home. 



THERE WERE— THERE ARE. (Third Time Over.) 

1. Have them copy : 

On the trees in summer time there were many leaves. 

On the street, as I went down town, there were many horses. 

At the Presidio there are many soldiers. 

On the Seal Rocks there are many seals. 

On the beach, on a warm Sunday, there are many people. 

At the end of the table there are two chairs. 

In my house there are two babies. 

Down at the Ferry Building there are many ferryboats. 

Once upon a time there were three bears. 

Last week there were some elephants at the park. 

2. Dictate the sentences of exercise 1. 

3. Have them write the first sentence of the following stories. Do not 
begin all with there: "The Three Bears," "Three Little Pigs," "Snow 
White and Eose Eed," "The Two Brass Kettles," "The Frogs that Wanted 
a King. ' ' 

4. Have the children select one word or expression from each column and 
make as many good sentences as they can : 

Once upon a time \ . two little boys. 

Last year \ / many apples. 

When I was a little girl / there are \ songs. 

This morning \ ) two examples. 

Every day ( there were j two girls. 

Yesterday j i some houses. 

After school / \ two roses. 

5. Look at the pictures in "English Lessons, Book One." Write sen- 
tences about these pictures using there are; as, "There are two boys fishing 
from a boat" (page 111), "There are two children riding in a dog-cart" 
(page 103). 

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6. Tell them the story of "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse" 
(Blaisdell: "Child Life, Second Reader," pages 74-77; Thompson: "Nature 
in Myth and Story," pages 44-46; Scudder: "Fables and Folk Stories," 
pages 84-85), putting in the phrase there were as many times as possible. 
The children may reproduce it. 

7. Fill in blanks : 

Thanksgiving Day -, nine boys at our house. 

any tops in that window? 

Last May Day many flowers in Golden Gate Park. 

Every day many boats that cross San Francisco Bay. 

Each year many people who visit California. 

many pretty homes in Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley. 

In our schoolroom four windows. ^ 

Saturday two boys playing in this yard. 

Decoration Day — ■ many flowers on the soldiers' graves. 

When Mr. Smith came to California • very few houses in San Francisco. 

On this side of the room two doors. 

THERE WAS— THERE IS. (Third Time Over.) 

The children very often make mistakes in this idiom if the sentence begins 
in some other way than with there. This "time over" should fix the form 
so that the final step, its use in composition where the attention is on the 
subject-matter, can be taken. This comes late enough so the sentences need 
not be acted out — that is to say, the setting may be made by the imagination 
of the child. 

1. "You may tell what there was on the table last night." I will change 
that sentence for you and write it on the board. Write : " On the table last 
night there was a beautiful rose. ' ' Have them make up sentences beginning 
with: in the stove; under the chair; last week; yesterday; once upon a time; 
a long time ago; in the woods; out hy a high tree; in the meadow. Write 
these sentences on the board, the children copying them : 

On the table last night there was a Once upon a time there was a famine in 

beautiful rose. the land. 

In the stove there was a fire. A long time ago there was a good fairy 

Under the chair there was a sleeping cat. living in a forest. 

Last week there was a picnic at the In the woods there was a little squirrel. 

beach. Out by a high tree there was a silent 

Yesterday there was a parade on Market horseman. 

street. In the meadow there was an aufs nest. 

2. Dictate the sentences of exercise 1. 

3. Repeat exercise 5 of the last series. 

4. Ask the children to write the first sentence of the following stories, 
beginning with some other word than there, but having the phrase there was 
in each sentence: "The Dog and his Shadow," "The Thirsty Crow," "The 
Fox and the Grapes," "The Lion and the Mouse," "The Discontented Pine 
Tree," "The Fox and the Stork," "The Dog in the Manger." (See First 
Grade.) 

5. Have a game of riddles. Begin: "In a green house there is a white 
house. In the white house there is a red house. In the red house there 
are many little red and white people. What is the house?" Answer — A 
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Then give another : ' ' On a hill there was a house. In the house there was 
a room. In the room there was a closet. In the closet there was a dress. 
In the dress there was a pocket. In the pocket there was a purse. In the 
purse there was some money. This money had an Indian's head on it. 
How much was in the purse ? ' ' Answer^One cent. 

The children should then make up and write their own. They will enjoy 
this very much. 

6. Tell the following story : 

Once there was a little girl walking iu the streets of a large city. She had no hat on 
her head, and her feet were bare. There was snow on the ground. It was fast growing 
dark. The little girl's mother was sick, so she had to go out to sell matches for a living. 

No one had bought her matches this day. She was very hungry and had no money in 
her purse. 

Now and then she stopped to look at the store windows. There was a light there. 
There was the smell of good things to eat. 

Soon she grew so cold that she sat down in a doorway. She lighted a match. She 
thought she was sitting before a fireplace. She put out her feet to warm them. Then 
the light went out. She lighted another match. She thought she saw a beautiful room. 
There was a big fire burning in the fireplace. Standing on the table there was a beautiful 
fern. There was a pretty bird in a golden cage. 

In that room, too, there was a table co'<^ered with a snow-white cloth. A big goose, 
stuffed with apples and plums, was at one end of the table. Then her match went out. 
She lighted another match. 

This time she saw a beautiful Christmas tree. The tree was covered with many bright 
lights and pretty toys. The little girl put out her hand to take them. Then her match 
went out. 

She lighted another match. In the clear bright light her grandmother stood before 
her. "Grandmother, take me with you," cried the little girl. In the morning they found 
her dead. 

7. Fill in blanks: 

Wednesday, April 3, no school. 

Last Fourth of July a parade in San Francisco. 

April IS, 1906, a big fire in San Francisco. 

In our schoolroom a large picture of Washington. 

On my desk a small piece of paper. 

a book on my desk last Wednesday. 

In Golden Gate Park • • — ■ a large bear. 

For copy and dictation : 

Last Wednesday, June 18, 1908, there was a picnic at the beach. Mary and Joe went 
with Mrs. Smith. They took the 10.30 a. m. train. They rode many miles. There were 
boats at the beach. They rowed until twelve o'clock. They ate lunch at 12.30. Mary 
and John went home at five o'clock. 

Review. 

The Wise Pig. 
There were two fields in the country. There was just a fence between 
them. One field was covered with trees. There were acorns and nuts on 
the ground. In this field there were many pigs. Corn grew in the other 
field. Now pigs like corn best of all. There was one pig who wanted the 
corn. He walked along the fence. He found a hollow log. One end was 
in his field and one end was in the corn field. The pig crawled through 
and had a fine time eating the corn. The farmer came next day and put 
him out. He could not see how the pig got into the field. The next day 

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the pig was in the corn again. The farmer looked out and there was the 
pig in the corn. This time the farmer walked all around the field. He 
found the log and turned it around. Now both ends were in the acorn field.- 
The pig went through the log. He looked around and found himself still 
in the acorn field. He crawled through again. He came out in the same 
field. He tried it again and again. At last he gave up and ran away. 

Why the Sea is Salt. — Part I. 

Once there were two brothers. One was rich and the other poor. It was 
nearly Christmas. The poor man had nothing in the house for a Christmas 
dinner, so he went to his brother and asked for a small gift. 

The rich man was too surly even to answer his brother politely. He took 
down a fine ham and threw it at his brother. He said, "Go home and don't 
let me see your face again." The poor man thanked him, put the ham 
under his arm, and went away. On his way home he had to pass through 
a great forest. In the middle of the forest he saw an old man with a long 
white beard. He was cutting down trees. "Good evening," said the poor 
man. The old man looked at him. " That is a fine ham you are carrying, " 
said he. "If you take it to the land of the dwarfs you may make a good 
bargain with it. Don't sell it for money. Take only the old hand-mill 
which stands behind the door. ' ' The poor man did as he was told. The 
dwarfs liked the smell of the ham. They swarmed around him in great 
numbers. They didn't wish to give up the old mill, so the poor man was 
about to go. "Let him have the old mill," said one. So the man took his 
mill and went home. 

"Where in the world have you been?" asked his wife. "Wait and see 
what will happen, ' ' said the poor man. He put the mill down on the table 
and began to grind. Out came wax candles first, for the room was too dark 
to see well. Then came a fire on the hearth, and a porridge-pot boiling over. 
They ground out everything that would make them warm and comfortable 
that cold December day. They ground out presents, too, for Christmas, 
and a good Christmas dinner. 

Answer in complete sentences: , 

Once there were what? It was what time of year? Tell' two things the rich brother 
did. What did he say? What did the poor brother do? Tell what he saw in the forest. 
The old man said what? What did the dwarfs not wish to do? One of them finally said 
what? His wife asked what? What came out first? Why? What else did they 
grind out? 

Why the Sea is Salt. — Part II. 

When the people went by the house to church, they were astonished. 
There was glass in the windows, instead of papers. The poor man and his 
wife had new clothes. ' ' There is something strange about this, ' ' said every 
one. 

Three days afterwards the rich brother was invited to a feast at his poor 
brother's. "Where did you get all these things?" he asked. The brother 
told the rich one all about the bargain. He showed him the mill and had it 

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grind out beautiful things for the poor. The rich brother wished to borrow 
it ; but the man was never to lend it. 

Soon this man was very rich. He built a castle on a rock near the sea. 
One day a merchant came along. He wished to buy the mill. He wanted 
to grind out salt. The mill couldn 't be sold. That night the merchant got 
into the castle and stole the mill. He put it in a boat and set out to sea. 
When he was a little way out he said, ' ' Grind salt, nothing but salt. ' ' Soon 
all the bags were filled. Then the boat began to fill. "What shall we do 
now?" cried the merchant. But the mill wouldn't stop grinding, and the 
ship sank. The mill is still at the bottom grinding out salt. This is the 
reason, say the peasants of Norway and Denmark, why the sea is salt. 

1. Oive sentences from, the story, using the following : 

there was showed built began wouldn't 

told wished came sank peasants of Norway and Denmark 

2. Write a sentence telling what the merchant said to the mill. Write a 
sentence telling what the ricKhrother asked when he came to the feast. 

3. Reproduce the story. 

Review. 

1. Have the children copy from the board the names of the months, the 
holidays, and the days of the week. 

2. Have the children make sentences containing each of the above. 

3. Fill in the blanks : 

To-morrow will be . To-day is . 



Christmas comes in the month Yesterday was . 

of . Next month will be 

My birthday comes in the month We do not come to school 

of . and . 

I went to church last . Last month was . 



4. Fill in the blanks with dates or names of holidays : 

Next Independence Day is . February will be Washington's 

The date to-day is . Birthday. 

I will be ten years old . My watch was given to me Christmas 

Day is September . . 



All the people remember Wednesday comes May 30, 1907. 

morning, April . Did you see the parade ? 

Did you have a pleasant time ? 

5. Write a sentence containing the name of the third day of the week. 
Write a sentence containing the name of a day of the week and a date. 
Write a sentence con-taining the name of a month of the year and a date. 
Write a question asking for the date of your mother's birthday. Write a 
sentence containing the name of a holiday and a date. 

6. Write five sentences containing the names of places. Write three 
sentences beginning with there were. Write two sentences that ask ques- 
tions. Write the names of the months. Write the names of the days of 
the week. 

7. The following sentences contain the forms taught so far in the Third 

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Grade. They may be placed on the board a few at a time for copy and 
study, and then dictated to the class : 

I. Mrs. Jones came home early. 

2 The two boys were not here to-day. 

3. Admission Day and Labor Day come in September. 

4 January is the first month of the year. 

5. Mr. and Mrs. Jones brought my sister a beautiful watch. 

6. Did you see the parade last Fourth of July? u o^ ion? 

7. The Christmas exercises will be held at the church, December 25, 1907. 

8. There are too many people here. 

9. I lent my knife Wednesday, February 3, 1906. 

10. Bring some flowers for Decoration Day. 

11. Did your two brothers have a good time last Thursday? 
12 John walked too far into the woods May Day. 

13. Dr. Smith had to be called the day after Thanksgiving. 

14. June 3, 1908, is the date set for the picnic. 

15. The meeting will be held Tuesday, August 4, 1907. 

16. December, January, and February are the winter months. 

17. March, April, and May are the spring months. 

18. June, July, and August are the summer months. 

20. They spoke too slowly. 

■ 19. September, October, and November are the autumn months. 

21. The baby fell down yesterday. 

22. It began to rain Friday at four o'clock. 

23. He threw the ball to his sister. 

24. The boys played too long at recess. 

25. The boys swam in the lake yesterday and took a hard cold. 

26. We shall take the ten o'clock boat for Oakland. 

27. The circus parade will go up Market street. 

28. Miss Jones lives on California street. 

29. They should not walk too far ud Jackson street. 

Past Tense of Verhs. Capitals. Too. Contractions. 
Special verb ''Teach." 

8. Tell whether the italicized words are present or past. If they are 
present, change them to past : ^^ 

The weaver sits at his loom. He teaches his dog many tricks. 

The men stood firm while the battle raged. She drinks milk for breakfast. 

The summer comes and goes. He takes his sister with him on a ride 

The men begin their work. The children think carefully before they 

I read in the Second Reader. icrite. 

9. Follow this model, using the following verbs : 

Model: I sang. We sang. 

You sang. You sang. 

He sang. They sang, 

learned won thought went said 

drew fell did saw took 

10. Change to the contracted form : 

He is not in town to-day. Frogs can not live without water. 

She could not do her work. The top has not any string. 

The farm did not pay. The cover will not stay down. 

They are not going with us. The trees have not any leaves. 

II. WritQ two sentences telling what you taught your dog. Write two 
sentences telling what games the boys taught you. Write two sentences 
telling what the circus-man taught the horses to do. 

12. Put on the board the past tense of the verbs under "Third Time 
Over. ' ' Have the children select the verbs that would apply to a dog and 

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finish the sentence; as, "A dog saw a cat," "A dog ran after the cat," etc. 
This device may be varied by having the sentences written about a girl, a 
boy, a bird, etc. 

Devices for Review. 

1. Tell in sentences : 

What we call the first day of the year. 

What great man's birthday comes in February. 

On what day we decorate the soldiers' graves. 

On what day we fire off firecrackers. 

What two holidays come in September. 

On what day we give thanks. 

What we call the first day of May. 

2. Write the names of the months of the year in order. Write the names 
of the days of the week in order. Write the names of all the holidays you 
know. 

3. Punctuate these sentences : 

She will be married September 6 1909 He lived in Oakland California on Janu- 

He will finish school March 30 1908 ary 3 1S8S 

My friend died January 6 1896 December 22 1907 was her last birthday 

I shall go to see her February 3 1907 August 8th was a warm day 

Will you go away before October 19 1907 November 28 1907 will be Thanksgiving 

Come to my house Wednesday April 10th Day. 

Will August 3d be too long to wait 

4. Put on the board this list. Have the children make sentences illus- 
trating the contracted form of each : 

was not does not can not should not had not 

were not did not would not is not I will 

have not do not has not are not I am 

5. Fill in the blanks with 



there 



IS 

are 

was 
were 



— two apples on my desk this morning? 

Once • a little boy and a little girl who lived alone 

In my house eighteen windows. 

four rows of desks in this room. 

A long time ago a boy named Tom. 

In John's desk ■ — a piece of blue paper. 

seven boys in the first row now. 

as many boys as girls in the room. 

In the pond by the schoolhouse ■ — ■ • many frogs. 

QUOTATIONS— PURPOSE AND METHOD. 

Purpose and Method. — It can not be denied that quotation marks are 

of little use in ordinary business or social correspondence. The school 

^should spend comparatively little time on a subject for which the world 

makes no demand. Yet school tradition for this topic is so universal that 

at present it seems unwise to leave it out. 

It is introduced at the end of the third year, as on account of its novelty, 
the children rather enjoy it. They thus learn it in less time and at less 
expense of energy than later on when interest is lost in formal work. 

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If the children are not proficient in the matter that goes before, it would 
be advisable to leave this topic over until the next year. 

The correct use of quotations is acquired by a slow process. Quotations 
may be divided into several type forms, and each one of these types mastered 
before the next one is taken. The second and third forms are more easily 
mastered than the first, and the last ones easiest of all. The children have 
.acquired the habit of putting in the marks by this time, so when they have 
T learned the type, they do not forget to put in the marks. The method is that 
of imitation, not explanation. There is much repetition, with the teacher 
reminding the pupils at first, and afterwards leaving them to themselves. 
It is easy to teach them to use the marks so that no errors will be made in 
dictation, but the use in composition is much more difficult. The children 
get it first by having their attention called to the quotations beforehand, by 
having them written on the board in answer to questions, and by asking 
them to read over their papers to see if they have omitted any quotations. 
They are helped by putting a mark in the margin and handing the paper 
back to have the sentence containing the quotation recopied and others made 
up like it. 

The types are : 

1. (a) John said, "I am going home." 

(ft) John asked, "May I play with Tom?" 

2. (a) "I am going home," said John. 

(6) "May I play with Tom?" asked John. 

3. (ffl) John said to me, "I am ten years old." 
(6) John asked me, "Where are you going?" 

4. (a) "The boy," said John, "is not to blame." 
(6) "Are you," asked John, "to leave school?" 

5. The boy said, "It is a fine day. I will go fishing." 

6. The boy asked, "Will you go fishing? It is a fine day." 

In the Third Grade the first two types only should be taught. The follow- 
ing is the method for presentation and drill on the first type. The second 
may be similarly taught. 

1. Ask one of the children for a sentence about his dog. Write it on the 
board, punctuating it properly. Then ask what else must be put on the 
board so ^hat anybody who didn't hear John say it would know he said it. 
The answer will be "John said." Put this before the sentence, and put in 
the comma and quotation marks, calling attention to the marks before and 
after the quotation. After writing three or four sentences in this way, 
have different children come up and put in the marks, until there are ten 
sentences. Have these copied : 

John said, "My dog is black." Allen said, "My dog jumps rope." 

Mary said, "I like to write well." Willie said, "There is a picture on the 

Hazel said, "I fed the silkworms this wall." 

morning." Mary said, "I have a new dress." 

Joe said, "I am going to the beach to- Rose said, "The frog ate a worm." 

morrow.". Jack said, "There are two frogs in the 

The teacher said, "I like good children." cage." 

2. Write on the board and punctuate : . 

The girl said, "The day is very warm." 
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Have the children make similar sentences ; write and punctuate the first 
two, then have the children finish the remainder. Copy: 

I said, "I will write for you." 

The boy said, "It was late when I reached home." 

The man said, "My house is very large." 

The boy said, "I rowed the boat across the water." 

Amy said, "I am glad you had a good time." 

The little girl said, "My bird can sing." 

Mama said. "Come home to lunch." 

The boy said, "I can swim." 

3. Say to the class, "This morning I went to the bakery to buy some 
bread. Let us write down what I said to the baker and what he said to me. 
What shall we write ? ' ' 

I said, "Good morning." The baker said, "Good morning." I said, "I wish to buy a 
loaf of bread." The baker said, "My bread isn't ready yet." I said, "I am sorry." The 
baker said, "I hope my bread will be ready to-morrow morning." 

The children tell where the marks should be placed as each sentence is 
written, then have them copy it on paper. Care must be taken that no 
words creep in after said, as "to me," or "to the baker," and that there 
are no questions. 

4. Send the children to the board and dictate quotations of this type. 
When any mistakes are made correct them at once. Then dictate the same 
quotations at their seats. 

5. Have the children make up ten quotations of their own — two telling 
what mama said, two what baby said, two what the teacher said, two what 
John said, two what the boys on the playground said. 

6. Nearly all the children should now be able to copy 'correctly and write 
from dictation, but some of them are careless. They know where to put 
the marks when their attention is called to it, but they often forget them. 
As a cure for carelessness, put the following sentences on the board, asking 
them to rewrite, putting in the quotation marks and the comma before the 
quotation : 

The boy said Come home. The old man said I am very hungry. 

The little girl said It is warm to-day. The blind man said Please show me the 

John said I am going home. way. 

Mary said I like peaches. The turtle said Let us run a race. 

Willie said The clock has stopped. May said I have a pretty doll. 

Mama said It will rain to-day. The man said There is no wolf. 

Papa said Be a good boy. The boy said. He will come again. 

The teacher said Write your very best. The lady said You are very kind. 

7. Tell this story and have it reproduced, first having the quotations 
written on the board : 

Jennie was a little girl. Her papa was very rich. She lived in a big house and had a 
very pretty garden. One day she was playing with her ball." It rolled to the fence and 
she ran after it. Outside she saw two poor little girls. Jennie said, "Please come in 
and play with me." The little girls said, "We will ask our mother." The girls' mother 
said, "Yes." The. girls went in and played ball until they were tired. Then Jennie said, 
"Let us sit down under the tree to rest." She brought out some bread and butter, and 
some candy and nuts for them to eat. Then the little girls went home. They said, 
"Thank you, Jennie." Jennie said to her mama, "They were very nice little girls." 

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The following are good stories for reproduction for the use of quotations. 
Be certain to use cfaly the one type of quotation: 

"The Tortoise and the Hare." 

^sop: Fables. 

Scudder: Fables and Folk Stories. 

Ward : Third Reader. 

Boston collection of Kindergarten Stories. 

"The Hawk and the Nightingale," ^sop's Fables, published by the 
Educational Publishing Company, Young Folks' Library of Choice Litera- 
ture. This story will not do as printed, but can be made over as follows : 

A little nightingale sat singing in a tree. An old hawk saw her. The hawk said, "I 
will eat her for my supper." So he swooped down upon the little nightingale and seized 
her in his claws. The nightingale said, "Please let me go." But the hawk was hungry 
and would not do it. The nightingale said, "I am such a little bird." But the hawk 
would not let her go. The nightingale said, "Eat some other bird instead." The hawk 
said, "I think you will do very well to begin my feast on." 

In the same way may be rewritten the stories of "The Fox and the 
Crab," "The Dog and his Shadow," "The Cat and the Birds." They are 
found in the same book as the story of "The Hawk and the Nightingale." 

8. For copy, punctuation or dictation : 

The boy said, "I will come home at 3 p. m." 

The little girl said, "We are going to Berkeley Saturday." 

John said, "They came to our house New Year's Day at four o'clock." 

Mary said, "Come to see me Wednesday, April 10, at 2.15 p. m." 

Willie said, "The clock stopped at 5 p. m." 

Mama said, "You may go to Alameda Washington's Birthday on the 5.20 p. m. boat." 

The lady said, "There were many flowers in Golden Gate Park last June." 

Papa said, "We shall cross San Francisco Bay Easter Sunday at 10 a. m." 

The teacher said, "Don't come to school Fourth of July." 

The man said, "I came to California the 31st of August." 

He asked, "Didn't you go to Los Angeles?" 

"I went to Berkeley," said I. 

"We shall sing our Christmas song," said the teacher. 

"We will not sing it too loudly," said the children. 

"Wednesday is our day for house-cleaning," said the woman. 

She sold her berries for twenty cents. 

"They haven't cried all day," said the little care-taker. 

"Couldn't you buy just one?" she cried. 

For copy: 

Mr. Brown said, "Come again at 4 p. m." . 
"Do not leave the room," said she. 

John asked, "What time do you reach school in the morning?" 
Mary replied, "I reach school at 8.30 a. m." 
"I start for school at 7 p. m.," said John. 
"Then you must attend night school," added Mary. 
"At ten o'clock we shall start," said they. 
"They will be home by 8 p. m.," said she. 
"Miss Brown, are you going with us?" the children called. 
• "Mr. Brown is going," said she. 

Following this series take up the same type in the question form. (It is 
not well to take this up until after the children have had the series on 
"Questions," page 37.) 

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/ 

1. Take a ball in your hand and put your hand behind your back. Then 
say, "You may guess what it is. I will answer anj'* question with yes 
or no." 

"Write their questions on the board, putting the question mark after each 
in colored chalk. 

Is it made of wood? Is it candy? Is it round? Is it a ball? 

Then ask, ' ' Who asked this question ? ' ' John replied, ' ' I did, ' ' so write 
before his question John asked, putting in the proper marks. In the same 
way write before each question the name of the person who asked it, and 
put in the proper marks. Have the children copy ten of the sentences. 

2. Copy the following: 

John asked, "Did the birds fly away?" John asked, "Where is my top?" 

The man asked, "Will you work for me?" I asked, "Do you know your lesson?" 

The boy asked, "Am I too late?" The teacher asked, "Are you ready?" 

Mary asked, "Will you go with me?" We asked, "Is it raining?" 

The girl asked, "Are you going now?" She asked, "Did the tree fall?" 

3. Make up ten quotations like this .- 

John asked, "Will you sell your top?" 

4. Dictate the quotations copied in another lesson. 

5. The same conversational device may be used, adding the question; as, 

One day I went to a jewelry store to buy a watch. I said, "I wish to buy a watch." 
The jeweler asked,- "What kind of a watch do you wish?" etc. 

In the same way the children may write with the teacher a conversation 
between (1) A boy and a jeweler. The boy goes to the store to buy a watch. 
(2) A boy who wishes to play with another boy, and his mother who wishes 
him to do his work at home. (3) A conversation between two boys who 
are out fishing. (4) An imaginary conversation between two books that 
have been badly treated. (5) The same between a pretty new doll and an 
old one. (6) Two boys who wish to trade knives or tops or marbles. 

The following stories are good to use for reproduction. It is a good idea 
to have the quotations written upon the board first in answer to your 
questions. Then let the children see how many they can bring into their 
reproduction. Be certain to keep to the type in use. The stories must be 
told in the type form: John said, "7 am going 'home,'' and John asked, 
''Are you going home?" 

"The Ant and the Geasshoppee." 

Scudder : Fables and Folk Stories, pp. 105-106. 

Lane : Stories for Children, pp. 44-45. 

The Morse Reader II, pp. 55-56. 
"The Fox and the Goat." 

Scudder : Fables and Folk Stories, p. 58. 

Baldwin : Second Reader, pp. 13-14. . 

Ward : Third Reader, p. 30. 
"Belling the Cat." 

Scudder : Fables and Folk Stories, p. 78. 
"The Feog and the Ox." 

Scudder: Fables and Folk Stories, p. 78. 
"The Aeab and His Camel." 

Baldwin: Fairy Stories and Fables, p. lOS. 

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6. As soon as the children are fairly proficient in writing from dictation 
quotations after said and asked, various words, such as replied, answered, 
called, and cried, may be used. 

Write on the board the sentence, Mama said, "Come home.*' Say to the 

class, "If you were far away and mama wished you to come home, what 

must she do?" If the answer, "shouted," or "screamed," is given, 

"called" may be substituted, and the sentence written: Mama called, 

' ' Come home. ' ' In the same way get : 

The boy screamed, "Oh, it hurts me." My baby says, "Mama, papa." 

The boy called, "Nero, come here." She whispered, "I am going to Oakland 

The boy thought, "My dog is prettier." after school." 

Have these sentences copied. The next day put this list on the board in 
a vertical line, and have the children give the sentences while the teacher 
writes them on the board. Then have the sentences studied. Later dictate 

them. 

said replied cried 

inquired answered , called 

asked whispered ' shouted 

7. For copy, punctuation, and dictation: 

John asked, "Couldn't you come to our house Thursday, August 3, 1909, at 2 p. m.?" 
The boy asked, "May I go to Berkeley Admission Day on the 1.20 p. m. boat?" 
The teacher asked, "Does Washington's Birthday come the 22d of February?" 
She asked, "Didn't they bring their books to school Thursday, August 24?" 
The girl asked, "Will you bring your doll to school St. Valentine's Day?" 
Mary asked, "Aren't you going to Golden Gate Park Tuesday, January 22, at ten 
o'clock?" 

I asked, "Can you bring me those two books to-morrow at 10 a. m.?" 
They asked, "Wouldn't she go across San Francisco Bay Admission Day?" 

8. For copy and dictation: 

It was 1.30 p. m. September 9, 190S. John and Mary were walking along Market 
street. "Don't you think it is too late to meet Dr. Smith?" asked John. "He told us to 
meet him at two o'clock in Golden Gate Park," replied Mary. "Aren't you glad Admission 
Day is a holiday?" "Yes, we will have a fine time," said John. "Dr. Smith will take us 
to the Chutes and Cliff House, too." 

Last Wednesday when John was playing in Golden Gate Park, his ball rolled away. 
A boy named Tom caught it. "Here is your ball," he called. "I'm much obliged," 
answered John. "Won't ypu play with me?" he asked. "Yes, I will play till Dr. Jones 
comes. He is going to take me to the Cliff House," said Tom. John asked, "Don't you 
live in San Francisco?" Tom replied, "No, I live in Berkeley. It is Admission Day so 
we had a holiday." 

Once President Roosevelt visited California. The little son of Dr. Jones wanted to 
see him very much. "You shall see him if I can help you," said his father. The day of 
the great parade came. It began at 9.45 a. m. on Market street, and went up Van Ness 
avenue. Dr. Jones had to go to Alameda that Friday. Poor little Frank was left alone. 
"I'm going to see President Roosevelt any way," said Frank. He walked along Sacra- 
mento street, and soon saw a man in a buggy. "Will you take me to see President 
Roosevelt?" he asked. The man couldn't refuse. "Jump in," he said. So Frank .saw 
the great President Roosevelt after all. 



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stories. 

The Canary and the Hawk. 

A canary sat singing in a tree. An old hawk saw her. The hawk said, 
"I will eat you." The hawk caught the bird in his claws. 

' ' Let me go ! " said the little canary. 

"I want to eat you," said the hawk. 

"I am such a little bird," said the canary. 

The hawk said, "I do not see any larger birds now, so I will eat you 
first." 

The Grasshopper and the Ant. 

One summer an ant made her nest and put some food into it. 
In winter a grasshopper came to the ant and said, "Give me something 
to eat." 

The ant asked her, "What did you do in summer?" 

"I jumped and sang," said the grasshopper. 

' Then you may jump and sing all winter, ' ' the ant said. 

The Rabbit and the Turtle. 

One day a rabbit met a turtle. "Let us run a race," said the rabbit. So 
they ran. The turtle crawled on slowly. The rabbit played in the grass. 
Then she ran as fast as she could. She caught up with the turtle. She 
lay down under a tree and went to sleep. The turtle crawled on and came 
to the oak tree. Soon the rabbit woke up. She ran again as fast as she 
could. She came to the tree and saw the turtle there. "I did not know 
that you could crawl so fast," said the rabbit. 

The Wolf and the Fox. 

Once a wolf caught a fox. The wolf said, "Get me something to eat." 
The fox said, "Come with me." So they went on together. They came to 
two ducks. The fox took one. He gave it to the wolf. Then the fox ran 
away from the wolf. 

The wolf ate the duck. He wanted the other duck. He went after it. 
He made so much noise that a man saw him. The man hit the wolf with 
a stick. The wolf ran away, too. He did not get the duck. 

The wolf caught the fox again. He said, ' ' Get me something to eat or I 
will eat you. ' ' The fox said, ' ' Come with me. ' ' He took the wolf to a barn. 
There was a little hole in the door. They crawled in and found a fat pig. 
The wolf began to eat. The fox ate some, too. The fox went to the hole. 
He could still get out. The wolf kept on eating. A man heard a noise in 
the barn and went in. Then the fox crawled out at the hole and ran away. 
The wolf tried to crawl out, too, but he could not. He had eaten too much. 
The man killed the wolf. Then the fox was happy. 

9. Type two may be presented and drilled upon in a similar manner. 

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FOURTH GRADE, 



DAILY DRILLS. 

While this Bulletin contains much material worked out at length, the 
author feels that a few drills given daily will help more toward acquir- 
ing correct forms than the study of too many details. The exercises should 
be given every day. In a country school they may be given to all the classes 
at once. The teacher gives the incorrect form, the children responding in 
concert with the correct form. After they have become fairly proficient, 
vary the exercise by having the children respond individually. Sides may 
be arranged and the sentences responded to, first by one side and then by 
the other. 

The second exercise consists in answering the questions correctly. As 
soon as the children have learned- to do independent work, these questions 
may be written on the board and answered in writing. The responses in 
the first exercise may also be given in writing if the teacher has the time. 



Daily Drills — Fourth Grade. 



Teacher. 
I seen a man. 
He eat some candy. 
I come to school yesterday. 
She drunk a glass of water. 
I done my work. 
It is me. 
It was them. 
It was him. 
It was her. 

There is two books on the desk. 
There was two apples on the table. 
I have saw a man. 
They haven't came yet. 
I have rode to school every day. 
They have went away. 
I have drank some milk. 
He rung the bell. 
I loaned my pencil. 
Can he come to see me? 
Can I write on the board? 
She learned me to spell. 
Tom learned his dog to sit up. 
The lady set down to rest. 
I laid down yesterday. 
You must not lay on the wet grass. 
Lie this book on the table. 
He lay his paper on the desk. 
I sat the box on the table. 



Pupil. 
I saw a man. 
He ate some candy. 
I came to school yesterday. 
She drank a glass of water. 
I did my work. 
It is I. 
It was they. 
It was he. 
It was she. 

There are two books on the desk. 
There were two apples on the table. 
I have seen a man. 
They haven't come yet. 
I have ridden to school every day. 
They have gone away. 
I have drunk some milk. 
He rang the bell. 
I lent my pencil. 
May he come to see me? 
May I write on the board? 
She taught me to spell. 
Tom taught his dog to sit up. 
The lady sat dov\;^n to rest. 
I lay down yesterday. 
You must not lie on the wet grass. 
Lay this book on the table. 
He laid his paper on the desk. 
I set the box on the table. 



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Teacher. 
What did you see this morning? 
What did you eat for breakfast? 
Did you come to school yesterday? 
What did you drink this morning? 
Did you do your work? 
Who is knocking at the door? 
Who took my book? 
Who was talking? 
What are there on the desk? 
Were there two apples on the table? 
What have you seen to-day? 
Have they gone away? 
Did he ring the bell? 
Who lent me this pencil? 
Does John sit in this seat? 
Who sat next to you? 
Who taught you to spell? 
Did you lie on the wet grass? 
Did you lie down yesterday? 
Did he lay his paper on the desk? 
Did you learn your spelling lesson? 
What did you do with the box? 
Ain't. 



Pupil. 
I saw a horse this morning. 
I ate some mush for breakfast. 
I came to school yesterday. 
I drank a glass of milk. 
Yes, I did my work. 
It is they. 
It was he. 
I. 

There are two books on the desk. 
There were two apples on the table. 
I have seen a horse to-day. 
They have gone away. 
He rang the bell. 
I lent you that pencil. 
John sits in this seat. 
Tom sat next to me. 
My teacher taught me to spell. 
I didn't lie on the wet grass. 
I lay down yesterday. 
He laid his paper on the desk. 
I learned my spelling lesson. 
I set it on the table. 
There is no such word. 



VERBS. (Fourth Time Over.) 

Method and Purpose. — In the ' ' fourth time over ' ' the work need not be 
confined to the verbs given in the lists, but all in a certain story may be 
drilled upon. The purpose is to get the attention upon the verbs, so the 
story told need not be long nor new. The teacher may tell the story, illus- 
trating it or in some way making it perfectly clear as to point and time. 
While telling the story, write the verbs on the board as they occur. The 
story this time is to serve as a proper setting, the attention being on the 
verbs. The children may then be asked for sentences from the story con- 
taining the verbs. These are to be written upon the board, read and copied 
by the children. Special drill must sometimes be given in spelling. The 
sentences may then be dictated to the class. 

The story may now be reviewed, and reproduced by one of the children. 
By this time they should be able to put their attention on the subject- 
matter, having acquired the proper reflex for writing the verb. 

See Introduction for purpose of telling the story. 

After the story has been reproduced in writing, the teacher should take 
the papers, underline all incorrect verb forms (that is, all presented in 
class), and return the papers to the children. These should be the only 
marks made on the paper, unless there are some errors in the same sentence. 
In that case the errors should be corrected by the teacher. Put on the board 
the proper verb forms. The children should be able to correct their errors 
without this help, but for fear some might not know, the correct forms 
should be given. Ask them to copy correctly on a piece of paper the 
sentences in which errors occur, then to make up three of their own contain- 
ing the word. 



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The Fox and the Crow, 



sat 


wished 


dropped 


ran 


went 


said 


caught 


ate 


saw 


opened 


did 





A crow sat on a tree, with a piece of cheese in her mouth. A fox went 
by. He saw the crow and wished to have the cheese for himself . "Ah, my 
friend," he said, "will you not sing for me? Your voice is very sweet. I 
would like to hear it again." The silly crow opened her mouth to sing. 
She dropped the cheese. The cunning fox caught it. He did not wait for 
the song, but ran away and ate it. 

Ask the following questions; write the answers on the hoard, underlining 
the verbs; read the sentences, and copy them; the next day dictate the same 
sentences : 

Tell me where a crow once sat. Who went by? Tell me what he saw. Tell me what 
he wished. What did he say? What did the crow do? What did she drop? What did 
the fox do? 

The Dog and His Shadow, 

stole saw jumped 

ran thought sank 

looked dropped went 

Once a dog stole a bone and ran away. He had to cross a bridge. He 
looked down into the water. There he saw his own shadow. But he thought 
it was another dog with a bigger bone. He dropped his own bone and 
jumped into the water to get the other one. He did not find the other dog 
there. His own bone sank to the bottom. So he went home hungry. 

1. Tell the story. 

2. Write the verbs on the hoard as they come in the story. 

3. Have sentences given from the story containing the words. Such sen- 
tences as these will probably be given: 

The dog stole a bone. He dropped his bone into the water. 

The dog ran away with the bone. The dog jumped into the water. 

The dog looked into the water. The bone sank in the water. 

The dog saw his shadow. The dog went home hungry. 
He thought it was another dog. 

4. Copy the sentences. 

5. Dictate the sentences. 

6. Have the story reproduced. 

7. Additional words for spelling: 

bridge shadow another bigger bone bottom hungry 

The Rabbit and the Turtle. 
laughed asked kept lay 

walked began jumped won 

offered started stopped 

Once a rabbit laughed at a turtle because he walked so slowly. The 
turtle offered to run a race with him. They asked the fox to be the judge. 
At a word from him the race began. The turtte started at once and kept 

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straight on. The rabbit jumped along for a minute. Then he stopped to 
play. Soon the sun became hot. The rabbit lay down and went to sleep. 
Soon he woke up and ran to the goal. The turtle was there already. So the 
turtle won the race. 

1. Copy these sentences. Write each italicized word three times: 

The boys laughed at the tricks. He kept the little kitten well. 

We walked to town to-day. The dog jumped up and ran away. 

I offered him my hat. The rabUt stopped to rest. 

We asked him to run a race. The rahhit lay down to sleep. 

The rabbit began to run. The turtle won the race. 
He started for the goal. 

2. Write sentences using each of the verbs. 

3. Additional words for spelling: 

turtle judge word straight minute 

4. Reproduce the story. 



The Ant and the Dove. 

fell dropped raised 

saw climbed ran 

took thanked 

A little ant fell into the water. A dove was sitting in a tree near by. 
She saw the ant in the water. So she took a leaf from the tree and dropped 
it down into the water near the ant. The ant climbed upon the leaf. She 
thanked the dove for saving her life. 

The next day the dove was building her nest. Near by was a m-an with 
a gun. He raised his gun to shoot the dove. The ant saw the man. She 
ran up to him and bit his heel. The man was so hurt that he dropped his 
gun. The dove flew away. Soon after, the dove thanked the ant for saving 
her life. 

1. Copy: 

The ant fell into the water. The ant thanked the dove. 

The dove saio the ant. The man raised his gun to shoot. 

The bird took the leaf in its bill. The ant ran up to the man. 

She dropped the leaf into the water. The dove flew away. 
The ant climbed upon the leaf. 

2. Reproduce the story. 



The Fox in the Well. 

A sly old fox fell into a well and could not climb out. A goat went by. 
He saw the fox in the well. He said to the fox, ' ' What are you doing down 
there?" "This is the nicest water I ever tasted," said the fox. "Come 
down and have a sip of it. ' ' So down jumped the silly goat. He was very 
thirsty, so he drank some of the water. 

The sly old fox jumped upon the goat's back, then to his horns and out 

upon the ground. He went quickly away, leaving the goat to get out by 

himself. 

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1. Write a sentence answering : 

What happened to a sly old fox? Who went by? What did he ask the fox? What 
did the goat do then? How did the fox get out? 

2. Reproduce the story. 

How A Dog Got His Dinner. 



there were 


rang 


had gone 


handed 


came 


took 


had given 


ate 


gave 


did not see 


reached 


thought 


wished 


had waited 







. In a town in the south of France there were twenty poor people who were 
served dinner at a certain hoiir every day. A dog came, too. He was in 
the habit of eating whatever scraps were thrown to him. Sometimes they 
gave him very little. 

The people who wished this free dinner came to a window and rang a bell. 
They were handed their meal through a small opening. The one who gave 
the dinner did not see who received it. 

One day the dog was very hungry. He had waited until everybody had 
gone. No one had given him anything. So he reached up, took hold of the 
rope with his teeth, and rang the bell. The man handed him out a good 
dinner. The dog ate it very gladly. After this he rang the bell for his 
dinner every day. The man thought him so clever that he was never 
refused something to eat. 

The Blind Soldier. 

there was held walked began 

played gave put cried 

sat saw took 

Once there was a poor, old, blind soldier. Every night he played his 
violin in the park to earn his living. His little dog sat beside him. The 
dog held his master's hat for the money. One night the old man was in 
trouble. , No one gave him any money. The poor man was very tired and 
hungry. 

A man was passing by. He saw the poor soldier. He walked up to him 
and put a coin in his hat. Then he took up the violin and began to play. 
He played so well that a great crowd gathered. Soon the hat was nearly 
full of money. The old soldier was so happy that he cried. The stranger 
was one of the finest violin players in the world. 

The Two Dogs. 



there was 


wouldn't 


reached 


jumped 


looked 


met 
began 


tumbled 
couldn't 


turned 
saw 


brought 


seemed 



Once there was a large Newfoundland dog named Brave. He was carry- 
ing a bone over a bridge. Right in the middle of the bridge he met another 
dog named Bruce. Bruce began to growl and bristle up for a fight. Brave 
wouldn't give up the bone, and Bruce wouldn't let him pass. So they 
began to fight. Both tumbled off the bridge into the water. 

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They had to swim a long distance before they could get out. Brave could 
swim easily. Bruce struggled hard, but couldn 't reach the shore. 

Brave soon reached the shore. He turned around to look for his enemy. 
He saw that Bruce was nearly drowned. The noble dog jumped into the 
water again and brought Bruce safely to the shore. They looked at each 
other as they shook their wet coats. They seemed to be saying, ''We will 
never quarrel again." 

The Cats and the Monkey. 



there were 


heard 


put 


saw 


quarreled 


brought 


bit 


swallowed 


decided 


cut 


cried 





Once there were two cats who stole some cheese. They quarreled about 
dividing it. They decided that the monkey should settle the dispute. The 
monkey heard all they had to say. Then he brought out a pair of scales. 
He cut the cheese into two pieces. He put one piece at each end of the 
scales. 

One piece was heavier than the other, so he bit off a large mouthful. 
Then the other piece was heavier, and he bit off and swallowed a mouthful 
of that. "Stop," cried both the cats together. They saw that the judge 
was eating up all their cheese. ' ' Give us what there is left, and we will be 
satisfied.'-' But the judge said, "If you are satisfied, the law is not," So he 
put the rest of the cheese in his mouth. 

The Boy and the Wolf. 



thought 


shouted 


there was 


told 


cried 


ran 


left 


laughed 


came 


there are 



Once a boy was watching some sheep. He thought he would play a joke 
on some men at work in a field. He ran toward them and shouted, "A 
wolf ! a wolf ! ' ' The men left their work and ran to kill the wolf. There 
was no wolf to be seen. The boy laughed at them and told them it was 
only a joke. 

A few days afterwards the wolves came in earnest. The boy cried, 
' ' Help ! help ! wolves ! wolves ! ' ' But the men said, ' * There are no wolves. 
He is only fooling us. ' ' The wolves killed many sheep. One of them was 
the boy's pet. 

The Frogs Asking for a King. 

lived threw asked 

wanted hid ate 

sent came there were 

Once some frogs lived in a pond. They wanted a king. So they sent 
one of their number to Jupiter to ask for a king. Jupiter threw down a 
great log into the pond. The frogs were very much frightened. They hid 
in the deepest part of the pool. The log did not move. Soon they came 
out. One climbed upon it. They did not wish this for their king, so. they 
sent again to Jupiter. This time Jupiter sent an eel. The frogs were not 
satisfied with this. They asked again for a king. This time Jupiter sent a 
stork. The stork ate the frogs one by one. Soon there was none left in 
the pond. 

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ABBREVIATIONS. 

1. Review the abbreviations taught in the Third Grade. See page 52. 

■ 2. Tell the children that in writing in sentences the names of cities and 

states, the name of the state is often abbreviated. Call attention to the 

period after the abbreviation, and the comma before and after the name 

of the state. Learn to write these : 

San Francisco, Cal. New York, N. Y. Salt Lake, Utah (not abbreviated). 

Los Angeles, Cal. Boston, Mass. Cleveland, Ohio (not abbreviated). 

Chicago^ 111.' Portland, Or. Denver, Colo, (or Col.). 

Nev7 York City. 

3. Have the children use these in sentences. Write the sentences on the 
board. Have them copied and studied, and written from dictation : 

San Francisco, Cal., is a western city. Salt Lake, Utah, is the home of the 

Los Angeles, Cal., has many visitors.- Mormons. 

Chicago, 111., is noted for its stockyards. Did you visit in Cleveland, Ohio? 

We visited New York City last year. I have friends in Denver, Colorado. 
Boston, Mass., is the center of learning. 

4. Sentences for copy, punctuation, and dictation : 

John said, "I am going to Chicago, 111., Wednesday at two o'clock." 

"Did you visit New. York City last October?" asked Mr. Johns. 

"I have many friends in Denver, Colorado," said Mrs. Black. 

"He will arrive in Boston, Mass., Wednesday, April 14, at 3 p. m.," she said. 

Dr. White didn't stop at Salt Lake, Utah, when he went to Cleveland, Ohio. 

"Last October she sailed for Portland, Oregon," said her sister. 

"Does Mr. Jones live in Los Angeles, California?" asked the girl. 

My sister was in New York City last New Year's Day. 

He leaves for New York City next Tuesday at 5 p. m. 

For copy and dictation : 

Monday, May 10, Mrs. Brown and her two children went to Los Angeles, California. 
It was vacation. After staying two weeks in Los Angeles, Mrs. Brown asked, "Shall we 
not go on to Denver, Colorado?" The children were delighted, and answered, "Yes, and 
let us also stop at Salt Lake, Utah." "Very well," said the mother, and they started 
on their journey. 

Anna and Mary have come from Chicago, 111., to visit their cousin in San Francisco, 
California. They are going to make her a long visit. While they are here, Clara is 
going to show them the city. One day they are going to Golden Gate Park on a picnic. 
Next Thursday they will cross San Francisco Bay and spend the day in Berkeley. 
Monday. May 24, they will go to the Chutes for a good time. After they leave San 
Francisco, they are going to Portland, Or., for two weeks. 



SINGULARS AND PLURALS. 

1. The children have already learned the singular and the plural form 
of hox, man, tooth, foot, mouse, leaf, child, fish, dog, cat, horse, frog, hoy, 
iahy, lady, fly, knife, loaf, wolf, and calf. Eeview these by writing them 
in a column on the board, and have the children spell the plural, while the 
teacher writes it opposite the singular. This list may then be copied, and 
studied, and finally dictated. 

2. Use the same list as in exercise 1. Have the class at the board. A 
child gives a sentence containing the first singular noun in the list. All 
write the sentence. Ask to have the noun changed to the plural form. 
What changes, if any, must be made in the sentences ? All write the same 

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sentence with the noun in the plural form. Use this list until the class know 
the words perfectly and are familiar with the terms, singular and plural. 
3. Put this list on the board. Use it for copy, study, and dictation : 



valley 


valleys 


sheep 


sheep 


turkey 


turkeys 


piano 


pianos 


girl 


girls 


book 


books 


goose 


geese 


potato 


potatoes 


tomato 


tomatoes 



peach 


peaches 


shoe 


shoes 


picture 


pictures 


woman 


women 


city 


cities 


wife 


wives 


dwarf 


dwarfs 


deer 


deer 


ox 


oxen 



4. Have sentences made containing the singular form. Change the sen- 
tences to the plural form. 

5. Send the children to the board. Give the singular form. Have the 
children write the plural. Give the plural. Have the children write the 
singular. 



6. Change to the plural form : 

Did you visit the beautiful valley? 

Please sharpen my knife. 

Did you speak to the child? 

Have you seen the sheep? 

Come and see our Thanksgiving turkey. 

Call the man. 

Did they move the piano? 



When will the lady call? 

How many deer did the hunter kill? 

The girl went skating. 

Will the hoy be at the picnic? 

She studied about the city. 

The dwarf smelled the ham. 

Did you see the iox on my table? 



7. Use the following sentences for copy, study, and dictation: 

Sherman and Clay sell many pianos. There are many large cities in the United 

Wild geese flew by in large numbers. States. 

Tomatoes are very good to eat. The wives of the officers sewed for the 

He hung the pictures in his room. sick soldiers. 

Many dwarfs smelled the ham. The deer are feeding on the hillside. 

8. Sentences for copy and dictation: 

There are many beautiful valleys in California. 

Last Decoration Day many ladies visited the graves of the soldiers. 

Were there many babies in Golden Gate Park May Day? 

Did you ever see the deer in Golden Gate Park? 

Many turkeys are killed for Thanksgiving Day. 

"These pictures show some very old cities," said John. 

"Did you give those knives to the children?" she asked. 

These books contain many stories about dwarfs. 

How many cities did those girls visit last January? 

The men took their wives and children to the Chutes. 

There was a sale of pianos on Market street last Thursday. 

"I saw many sheep and geese on the farm," said Miss Brown. 



Review. 

1. "Write the names of all the holidays you know.. Write opposite each 
the name of the month in which the holiday comes. Write a sentence telling 
how we celebrate each holiday. 

Write the names of the days of the week. 

Write a sentence giving the name of a friend of your mother ; of a friend 
of your father ; of a physician you know. 



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Write a sentence giving the name of a street ; the name of a city and the 
state in which it is. 

'"Write a sentence telling when your next birthday will be. Write a 
sentence telling the city in which you were born, the state, and the date. 

2. Instead of said or asked the following words may be used : 

answered spoke called 

inquired whispered shouted 

replied cried yelled. 

Write nine sentences using these words correctly. Have each sentence 
contain a quotation. 

3. Write sentences containing these words : 



see 


sit 


go 


drink 


drive 


win 


eat 


come 


lie 


write 


fly 


teach 


begin 


do 


sing 


know 







Change your sentences to the singular form. Change your sentences so 
past time will be shown. 

4. Dictate: 

Mary said, "My cat caught a mouse." 

The boy said, "He taught my dog to jump through a hoop." 

John replied, "I lent him my book last week." 

Washington said, "He went through the battle bravely." 

"My birthday is in October," said Mary. 

He asked, "In what month is Thanksgiving?" 

"Thanksgiving comes in November," replied the teacher. 

"Wednesday will be a holiday," said they. 

Past Tense of Verhs. Capitals. Quotations. Too. 

5. Dictate: 

They saw their cousin in Sacramento. "It taught me a good lesson," said John. 

They waited too long in Oakland. "He won the race by three feet," replied 
John said, "The man built a new house ' Ned. 

in San Francisco." "Did she make her story too long?" asked 
The work was done too long ago. Alice. 

The boy asked, "Have you a cousin "She borrowed my knife in February," 

living on California street?" said he. 

I think Mary was too polite to go. 

4. Sentences for copy, study, and dictation : 

Mrs. Brown said, "We went to the country last August." 

The last Thursday in November is Thanksgiving Day. 

The women walked down Market street last Wednesday. 

Dr. Jones asked, "Do you live in San Francisco, California?" 

The two boys won the race May Day. 

The girls began to study January 7, 1906. 

"Was Miss White here on Christmas Day?" asked John. 

The children ran to school last Monday. 

The ladies wished to go to the country last Fourth of July. 

"I live in Oakland, California," said Mr. White. 

The men caught many fish last September. 

The boys played ball on New Year's Day. 

We brought flowers to school Decoration Day. 

The child kept the books until February 4, 1904. 

The little boy ate too much candy. 

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The lady handed the little girl some boxes. 
Tom asked, "Is Admission Day a holiday?" 

When did he put the knives on the table? • 

The little boy climbed the tree last Friday. 
Did the men march down Fillmore street on Labor Day? 
We visited Berkeley, California, Washington's Birthday. 
I thought that you would visit Mrs. Jones in October. 
, "The valleys are very beautiful," said he. 

We climbed the mountain the first Saturday in December. 
Did you see the oxen that were in the meadow Sunday? 
They are going away either the 3d of April or the 6th of July. 
"The dog bit the little girl last Tuesday," said Dr. Brown. 
Mr. White said, "We saw many beautiful things when we 

stopped in the different cities." 
The leaves fell to the ground last September. 
Did Mr. White visit Alameda, California? 
The potatoes did not grow last year. 

For copy and dictation: 

The children wanted to go on a picnic to Golden Gate Park. They did not live in 
San Francisco. Their homes were in Oakland. They thought that May Day would 
be a good time to go. They were up at 6 a. m. They hurried to put up their lunch, 
which they carried in two big baskets. They went to Stow Lake in Golden Gate Park. 
There they played all day. When they were hungry they sat on the bank of the lake to 
eat their lunches. They fed the swans crumbs of bread. About 5 p. m. they started 
for home. 

Once there were two little German girls. They were neighbors and lived in Los 
Angeles, California. They couldn't speak English, and were sometimes very lonesome. 
On Christmas Day they received many pretty toys. There was everything they had 
wished for. How happy those children were with their new playthings. 

It was November 28, the day before Thanksgiving. Little Nellie was playing on the 
doorstep. Her mother was baking pies for the next day. "Don't go away, Nellie," she 
called. Nellie had wandered a long way from home the week before. She was tired and 
lay down in the sun. Soon her mother forgot her and she slipped away. Down in the 
orchard there was an old well. Nellie thought that would be a good place to play. The 
old dog Jack knew that Nellie shouldn't play there. Old Jack began to bark, and mother 
went to look for her little girl. She found her there by the well with Jack sitting near. 



THEIR. 

1. Tell the class this story : 

Once I took a long trip on the train. We reached a small town one day, to find the 
train ahead of us off the track. I looked about for something to do while I was waiting. 
Soon I saw the schoolhouse, and decided to visit it. But what was my surprise on reaching 
the building not to find any signs of anybody. The doors were open, and I went in. I 
knew the children must be near, for I saw their hats hanging in the cloakroom. 

Step to the board and write: *'I saw their hats." ''Now tell me some- 
thing else I saw that belonged to them." The following sentences will be 
obtained. Write them on the board: 

I saw their coats. I saw their school bags. I saw their umbrellas. 

I saw their books. I saw their book straps. I saw their lunch baskets. 

' ' I went into the schoolroom. There I saw what 1 " 

I saw their desks. I saw their papers. I saw their pencils. 

I saw their drawings on the board. 

"Soon I heard a noise, and looking around I saw the children coming. 
Then I saw what ? ' ' 

I saw their teacher. I saw their hands full of flowers. I saw their dresses. 

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"The teacher invited me to stay until noon. Then I went home to lunch 
with three little sisters. What do you think they showed me ? " Have the 
children each write a sentence on the board. 

They showed me their toys. They showed me their garden. 

They showed me their pictures. They showed me their flowers. 

They showed me their mother. They showed me their story boolis. 
They showed me their pets. 

2. Have the children copy ten of these sentences. 

3. Write sentences with the following: 

their gardens their large horse their trees their money their examples 

their lessons their books their houses their own way their banner 

4. Answer the following questions in good sentences : 

Of what do the Eskimos make their What do good children do with their toys? 

houses? How should children study their lessons? 

Where do toads lay their eggs? Where do woodpeckers get their food? 

Where do the tent-moths lay their eggs? When do the farmers plant their grain? 
Where do woodpeckers make their nests? 

5. "Once I knew two little girls who were very untidy. A friend came 
to take them to ride, but they could not find their things. They cried 
bitterly when the friend drove away without them." Write six sentences 
telling where they found their things. 

6. Write sentences telling what the mother-rabbits teach their young; 
what dogs teach their young ; how the mother-toads treat their young. 

7. Make ten sentences containing their. 

8. Tell the following story : 

Ikwa and Magda. 

Far, far away in the North the winters are long and cold. Here in the land of the 
Eskimo lived a little girl and her brother with their father and mother. The little girl's 
name was Magda, the little boy's Ikwa. 

Now, Ikwa and Magda lived in a house very different from ours. Their house was 
made of snow. It was not very hard to build, for their papa built it in one day. He cut 
big blocks out of the snow and put them carefully together. He left a hole in one side, 
through which they had to crawl inside on their hands and knees. The inside of their 
house was very queer. 

They had only one room, in which everything was done. Their beds were made on a 
bench of ice, and were covered with heavy sealskins. Their stove was not like ours, 
either. They had a lamp, with which they cooked their food and kept themselves warm. 
When dinner was ready, they all sat down on the floor around a large bowl, and ate 
from it with their sealskin spoons and bone knives. 

Now I am sure you would like to know how Ikwa and Magda spent their time. In 
the Northland all the little boys and girls have sleds. Ikwa and Magda had a pretty 
one, which their papa had made for them. The runners were of bone, and the top of 
strips of sealskin. Their papa had brought back these things from his long flshing trip. 

What fun Ikwa and Magda did have with their sled ! Sometimes they played a game. 
Whenever papa killed a deer, he gave the children the antlers. The children set up 
these antlers in the snow, leaving a short distance between them. Then they rode 
through on their sled, and shot at the antlers with their arrows. It was very hard to 
hit them. 

Neither Magda nor Ikwa ever could write their names. They did not go to school, for 
there was none to go to. The children knew a great many stories, though. 

Another game which Magda and her brother would play was very funny. They often 
sat on the floor together in their little house. Then they would, hold their toes with 
their hands, and move along by jumps. Oh, what fun they had, and how they would 

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jump! The one who could go the faster would beat, and how little Ikwa and Magda 
would jump and tumble around on their floor ! 

Magda's little dolls were made of wood, and their clothes were of sealskins and furs. 
Both she and Ikwa spent many happy hours with them. 

The little boys and girls of the far North like candy as well as their little cousins of 
the South, but I am sure you would not like their candy when I tell you what it is. It 
is the red skin of a bird's foot, soaked in fat. Magda and Ikwa ate it and liked it. I 
wonder why? Because their cold climate makes them like fat. 

9. Answer the following questions: 

With whom did Magda and Ikwa live? What did they do with their sled? 

Of what was their house made? What game did the children play at 
How did they get into their house? night? 

Tell how their beds were made? What did Magda play with? 

How did they keep warm? Their clothes were made of what? 

Where did their papa get the material Of what was their candy made? 
to make their sled? 

10. Reproduce the story. 

11. Have the children tell what their stands for in each sentence. 

12. Underline every mistake in their compositions, then return the papers. 
Have the children correct the sentence, rewrite it twice, then make up two 
of their own like it. 

The Dandelion, 
Years and years ago many little stars lived in the sky with their mother, 
the moon, and their father, the sun. Their mother called them every night 
to come out and shine to make the earth lighter. One night she called, but 
they came very slowly, and would not shine. Now they had always been 
good, so their mother felt sad to see them so bad. She called out some other 
stars to take their places. The naughty stars felt themselves falling, falling 
from the sky. They fell until they reached the earth. There they cried 
themselves to sleep. In the morning their father, the sun, woke them up. 
The stars felt very sad. Their father was sorry, too. He said, ' ' I will make 
them shine on earth, so it may be beautiful. ' ' He turned them into dande- 
lions. We may see them shining out like stars in the green grass. 

13. Sentences for copy and dictation : 

Did they visit their cousins in Berkeley last Saturday? 

Many ladies took their children to Golden Gate Park Admission Day. 

They have gone to Cleveland, Ohio, to visit their relatives. 

"We couldn't go to their house last Decoration Day," said Mrs. Smith. 

Their friends will arrive in San Francisco next Tuesday at 4 p. m. 

The children took their two dogs with them to New York City. 

"Didn't the boys put their pictures into their boxes?" she asked. 

Their coats and hats have been here since last Thursday. 

They didn't bring their books to school last Saturday. 

For copy and dictation: 

One lovely summer day some children took their lunch and went to the Cliff House. 
It was Saturday, June 5, 1908. Their mothers went with. them. They went on the 
9.30 a. m. train. On the train they met some of their friends. When they arrived at 
the beach they took off their shoes and stockings and went in wading. The children and 
their friends played in the sand all afternoon. There were many holes full of water 
when they finished. They went home on the 4.30 p. m. train. They took their shells 
with them. 

Their mother had promised Rose and Mae a party. It was their birthday. The party 
was to be Saturday, June 12, 1908, at 2 p. m. Some of their friends lived in Oakland. 

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They were coming to the party, too. Rose and Mae lived on Haight street in San 
Francisco. Their friends brought many presents to the two little girls. Their aunt 
gave them something better than a present. Both little girls loved to visit their aunt, 
for she lived in the country. She invited them to spend Thanksgiving Day with her in 
the country. You may be sure the little girls thanked their aunt and all their friends 
and their mother for the lovely time they had. Their friends started home on the 
7.30 p. m. train. 

THOSE. 

1. Place several of as many kinds of pens, pencils, books, papers, pictures, 
etc., as yon can get in various parts of the room, as far away from yourself 
as possible. Then say, "Will you bring me those red lead pencils, John, 
please?" After all the things have been brought to the desk, say, ''Now 
you may see if you can remember what each person brought." Insist on 
each child using the word those and looking at the things he brought. If 
he doesn't, you say, "Which ones?" and as he points to them, he says, 
"Those." 

2. Write on the board the sentences given, have them read aloud, and 
copied. 

John brought those red lead pencils. I brought those colored pictures. 

I brought those reading books. Mary brought those spelling papers. 

He brought those framed pictures. May brought those large boxes. 

3. Have the children make sentences about the objects in the pictures 
on the wall, using those. Write them on the board, have them read, and 
copied. 

Those sheep are lying in the shade. The heads of those horses are pretty. 

Those apples are red. Those trees have no leaves. 

I see those men driving the sheep. Those flowers are in a vase. 

Those kittens are drinking milk. Those birds have pretty colors. - 

4. Dictate ten sentences, taking them from exercises 2 and 3. 

5. Have the children make sentences containing the expressions : 

those oranges those books those examples those marbles those horses 

those knives those things those houses those girls those stones 

6. Have the children complete these sentences, using those: 

I do not like She is telling me about The boys saw 

I can not play with I am going with John brought me 

He looked at I didn't say I didn't do 

The boy is thinking about 

7. Have the children make ten sentences containing those. 



Review. 

Those. Their. 

1. Make up a sentence telling about your books at home, using those. 
Tell about the children in the next grade ; tell about the stores down town ; 
tell about the pieces of chalk in the box, using those every time. 

2. Dictate to the class: 

Those men rode their wheels. Their hats hang on those hooks. 

Those apples are sour. She told those boys to read their lessons. 

Their desks are in good order. 

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3. Make up ten sentences, using these expressions : 

those dolls those horses those books their desks their tops 

those pencils those words their lessons their parents their playmates 

4. Sentences for dictation: 

Bring those books to their house next Saturday. 
Did those girls send their letters to Salt Lake, Utah? 
Their friends are going to visit those cities next February. 
Those two boys took their dogs with them to Chicago, Illinois. 
"Where did those ladies buy their flowers?" asked Dr. Brown. 
Did those men meet their friends in New York City? 
"Those books belong to their brother," he said. 
At what hour did those children leave their home? 



NATIONALITIES. 

1. The children have had enough geography by this time to be familiar 
with the names of the different countries. The names of the people who 
come from these countries are then easily learned. Put on the board at 
the children's dictation a list of the countries they know. It will probably 
be something like this : 



America 




Americans 


Germany 


Germans 


England 




English 


France 


French 


Scotland 




Scotch 


Russia 


Russians 


China 




Chinese 


Spain 


Spaniards 


Japan 




Japanese 


Italy 


Italians 


Philippine 


Islands 


Filipinos 







Write down opposite the name of each country the name of the nation- 
ality. Call attention to the fact that they are always written with capital 
letters. Have the children give sentences about each one. These sentences 
should tell something about the people. The following were given by Fourth 
Grade children: 

Americans are very busy people. German children obey their parents. 

English gentlemen like to hunt. French ladies dress beautifully. 

Burns wrote about Scotch life. The Japanese won from the Russians in 
The Chinese and Japanese eat much rice. the war. 

The Americans are teaching the Filipino Spaniards like to go to bull-fights, 

boys to read English. Many of our best singers are Italians. 

2. Have the children make out the list of countries, and write the 
nationalities. 

3. Use the following sentences for copy, study, and dictation : 

The Scotchmen went to the park to bowl Saturday. 

Many Italians land in New York City every week. 

The Spanish girls danced last night. 

The two Japanese boys will be here to-day. 

The American boy is learning to speak German. 

Some Filipino boys went to the American schools. 

The Englishmen played cricket Saturday. 

Los Angeles, Cal., and Salt Lake, Utah, are well-known American cities. 

Many Chinese and Japanese come to San Francisco every year. 

"Are those two boys English?" asked John. 

The Spanish boy came to see me last Saturday. 

There are many Italians in San Francisco. 

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Review. 

1. Dates in sentences. There— TUeir. 

The girls will sing their new songs October 10, 1907. 

The children went to the picnic February 22, 1903. 

There were many people in San Francisco April 18, 1906. 

The teachers will take their children to the park to-morrow, April 17, 190.. 

September 8 is my birthday. 

On the 3d of January there will be many visitors. 

Didn't you have a good time Fourth of July? 

I will be six years old August 27, 1907. 

"Were there too many pens given out?" asked Mary. 

The two boys brought their books to school. 

2. Holidays. Abbreviations. Months of year. 

Christmas comes in December. 

Mrs. Jones asked, "Did you attend the exercises Decoration Day?" 

The last Thursday in November is Thanksgiving Day. 

New Year's Day is a time to begin new work. 

Mr. Brown said, "I shall march in the parade Labor Day." 

"We will have fireworks Fourth of July," said Dr. Carpenter. 

Will they go out of the city May Day? 

We shall have vacation Washington's Birthday. 

3. General review: 

There are the two books which belong to the Spanish boys. 

The boy teaches his dog to jump rope. 

John said, "I saw those frogs yesterday." 

Did you hear the Italian girls sing their songs? 

The baby learns to clap his hands, too. 

"Did you lie on the grass?" asked Tom. 

The Scotch boy laid the books on the table. 

"There were too many Chinese there last night," said Mary. 

The two girls taught their sisters to sing. 

Did you see the two wolves on the side of the mountain? 

The French women offered to help the Americans. 

The German boy sat in that chair. 

The two boys were too late to see the deer. 

Mary asked, "Did you set the vase on the table?" 

The Japanese boy lay on the floor. 

When the little girl fell she broke her teeth. 

Who laid those tomatoes on the table? 

The babies learned to walk yesterday. 

The two girls will teach their sister to dance. 

"The English boy thought the valleys were very beautiful," said John. 

The boy hurt his feet when he jumped from the tree. 

May asked, "Is it too warm to go away?" 

"Those Englishmen didn't get here on the 4 p. m. train," he said. 

Did those Filipinos arrive in Oakland Tuesday, October 4, at five o'clock? 

"Send those pianos to Boston, Massachusetts," said the man. 

Why didn't those two German boys bring their books to school last 

Wednesday ? 
"Are those ladies French?" asked Miss Brown. 

4. For copy and dictation : 

November, December, and January are the winter months. In Boston, Mass., it is 
very cold during this season. Nevertheless Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's 
come then an'd we have good times indoors. In February, March, and April the rain 
and wind come. The rain brings the pretty wild flowers. Our next season is summer. 
The summer months are May, June, and July. Every one looks forward to vacations 
then. In autumn, August, September, and October, the flowers die. The leaves fall 
from all the trees. Of all the seasons, I like winter best. 

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QUOTATIONS. 

1. The forms of quotations to be mastered in this grade are : 

John said to me, "I am ten years old." 
John asked me, "Where are you going?" 
"The boy," said John, "is not to blame." 
"Are you," asked John, "to leave school?" 

The method to be followed is essentially that of the Third Grade. The 
teacher calls upon a child to say something to John about his pet. The 
child rises, saying, "I have a pet cat." The teacher writes this on the 
board, putting quotation marks around it, the children telling her that is 
what Tom said. The teacher then asks, "How shall I know to whom it was 
said ? ' ' When the answer is given, write Tom said to John before it, putting 
in the comma. Then the sentence reads : Tom said to John, ' ' I have a pet 
cat." In the same way several sentences may be procured, written on the 
board, and punctuated by the teacher at the suggestion of the children. 

2. Copy: 

The boy said to his sister, "We do not have school to-morrovv^." 

Mary said to John, "My pet cat is very playful." 

Tom said to Ned, "My dogs will bring back sticks." 

Mama said to baby, "Do not touch the books." 

The teacher said to the class, "Please walk quietly." 

3. Dictate to the class the above sentences. 

4. Write the following sentences on the board one by one. Have the 
children look at the sentence. Then erase it, and have the children write 
it. It is better to have the class at the board for this exercise. If a child 
has it wrong, he may look at the work of one who has it right, and then 
make his own right. If the teacher can secure an ordinary window shade 
that moves up and down by means of a spring, the work may be varied. 
The window shade may be fastened just above the top of the blackboard. 
Instead of erasing the sentence, the teacher may pull the shade down over 
it. After the children have written it on the board, the curtain may be 
raised. Each child can then correct his own work. 

Sentences to be used : 

John said to his dog, "Go home." 

Mary said to her sister, "This is yours." 

The boy' said to his top, "Spin, top, spin." 

The man said to his horse, "You have worked weil." 

The girl said to the baker, "I wish a loaf of bread." 

The man said to his son, "Your work is well done." 

The child said to me, "A cat caught my bird." 

My sister said to me, "The calf has pretty eyes." 

The woman said to her son, "You are a help to me." 

The boy told his cousin, "We can get a squirrel in that tree." 

5. The children may copy sentences from the reader or from the board 
until they can write this form without error. They may then take up the 
broken quotation. 

6. If the children know where to put these marks, but are careless, have 
them copy an article from which the quotation marks have been omitted. 

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The Wolf and the Lamb. 
A little lamb was going to its home. It met a wolf. The lamb said to 

the wolf, "I know you want to eat me." The wolf said, "Yes, I do." The 

lamb said to the wolf, "Please sing before you eat me and I will dance." 

So the wolf sang and the lamb danced. Now the dogs heard the wolf sing. 

They ran to see what was the matter. The lamb ran away and left the 

wolf to the dogs. The dogs ate the wolf. 

7. Sentences for copy, punctuation, or dictation, if broken quotations are 

given : 

"When," asked John, "are those two Spanish boys coming to school?" 

Tom said to his brother, "Those Italian children will be here on the 3 p. m. train." 

"I'm going to Berkeley," said Mary, "next Thursday at 5 p. m." 

Can you come with us," she asked, "next Tuesday at five o'clock?" 

"May I go with Mrs. Smith to Golden Gate Park Decoration Day?" John asked his 

mother. 

"Next Tuesday," said Mary, "will be Christmas." 

"I know," said the boy, "that Thanksgiving is the last Thursday in November." 
The boy said to his sister, "I would like to go to the Cliff House next Saturday." 
. "How far," asked the boy, "is New York City from San Francisco?" 
John asked his father, "Are there many Chinese in San Francisco?" 
"Come to see us," said the little English girl, "next Saturday at 2 p. m." 

Review. 

1. Those. Their. Quotations. 

Sentences for study and dictation : 

He asked me, "Do those apples belong to Harry?" 

I replied, "Those apples are mine." 

The boy asked his father, "Are their horses for sale?" 

The father replied, ^'Their horses were sold yesterday." 

I asked my sister, "Will you help me fix their May baskets?" 

My sister said, "Yes, with pleasure." 

"Their roses are beautiful in June," said my mother. 

"Those houses are to be painted alike," said my brother to me. 

"Are those pencils to be given to their owners or kept here?" asked the monitor. 

The teacher said to the monitor, "The children are to keep their pencils." 

2. Quotations. Time. 

Sentences for study and dictation : 

Mrs. Brown asked, "Is it four o'clock?" 

Dr. White said, "I will be there at 4.30 p. m." 

We are going Wednesday at 5.20 a. m. 

Miss Reed left Thursday at three o'clock. 

"Is 2.20 p. m. too late to go?" asked she. 

"We must be at school at 8.45 to-morrow," said John. 

"Send my boys home at five o'clock," said Mrs. Brown. 

2. Contractions. Too, two, to. Their, There. 

Sentences for study and dictation : 

"Can't you come to our house?" she asked. 
"We saw their pet rabbits," said John. 
There are two books on my desk. 
_ The little girl ate too much cake. 
Did she eat more than two pieces? 
"Isn't your dress finished?" she asked. 
"Are there any pencils in their desks?" asked the teacher. 
We haven't heard you sing. 
Aren't the two boys going fishing to-morrow? 

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4. Exercises in "English Lessons, Book One," Lesson III, p. 147. 

5. For copy and dictation : 

Friday, February 21, 1909, was little May's birthday. She would be nine years old. 
As the next day was Saturday, her mama said that she could go- to Golden Gate Park 
with her little friends. May was so excited that she woke up at two o'clock. It was 
hard for her to go to sleep again. At last she heard her mother calling, "Aren't you going 
-to Golden Gate Park with us?" May jumped out of bed and soon was ready. She was 
too happy to sit still in the car. When the party arrived at the park they saw flags 
flying. "What are they for?" asked May. "Why to-day is Washington's Birthday," 
said a little girl. "Flags are flying in every city in the United States," said her mother. 
The children played all day long, and were sorry when the time came to go home. 



SPECIAL VERBS. 

Lay, Laid. 

1. Say to the class, "I am going to do several things for you. When I 

get through I wish you to do just as I did." Write the sentence as you 

do it. 

I lay the pen on the desk now. I lay the ruler on the desk. 

I lay the pencil on the desk now. I lay the chalk on the desk. 

I lay the eraser on the desk now. 

Then call on different children to lay down such articles as paper, chalk, 
books, sponge, slate, etc., giving the present tense as the act is performed. 
Then say to them, "I laid down five things on the desk for you. Do you 
remember what they were?" Insist on the clear enunciation of the word 
laid. Then each one tells what he laid down, and where he laid it. 

2. Have the following commands written on the board; have the acts 

performed, and after the children have reached their seats again, have them 

tell what they have done : 

Lay down your pen. Lay the book on Tom's desk. 

Lay your coat on my chair. Lay this note on your desk. 

Lay the pencil on my desk. Lay the blotter on Mary's desk. 

Lay the eraser in the chalk tray. Lay the doll on the bench. 

Lay your paper on the table. Lay my book on your desk. 

3. Have the children write sentences telling of the acts performed in 
exercise 2. 

4. Have the children make up sentences telling where John laid his knife, 
when he laid it there, why he laid it there ; where he laid his books after 
school; where he laid the eraser, the chalk, his pencil, his pen. 

5. Have the children give commands to each other. After the child has 
performed the act, have him tell what he has done. 

6. Dictate the following sentences : 

Lay your books away carefully. She always lays her pencil down quickly. 

I laid my dress away after the party. Mary laid the clean clothes away. 

I laid the pen down on my desk. The boys laid their coats on the hay. 

I lay my pen down carefully every day. The girl lays her books neatly in her 
The boys laid their hats on the grass. desk. 



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7. Fill in tlie blanks : 

Decoration Day we the flowers on the graves of the soldiers. 

Miss Jones said, " • your papers on the desk." 

"Did you that book here yesterday?" she asked. 

"I my hat on this table last Thursday," said their sister. 

"Where did you that piece of paper?" the teacher asked. 

"Wednesday, June 15, 1909. we all our books away," said the children. 

Learn, Learns, Learned. 

1. Say to the class, "Last night I learned to spell a word. Tell me one 

thing you learned to do to-day. ' ' Write these sentences on the board : 

I learned how to spell a word last night. I learned how to write a word to-day. 
I learned how to do an example to-day. James learned how to sit in attention 

to-day. 

"Tell me what your dog learned to do. Tell me what the circus animals 
learned to do. Tell me what the horse learned to do." Write the answers 
on the board. They will be such as these : 

My dog learned how to jump rope. The elephants learned how to dance. 

My dog learned how to bring in the paper. The horses learned how to walk up steps. 

My dog learned how to beg for his dinner. The horses learned how to stop when the 

The seals learned how to play the drums. man speaks to them. ■ 

' ' Tell me what you learn to do every day. ' ' 

^ I learn how to write. I learn how to read. I learn how to sing. 

I learn how to spell. I learn how to do examples. 

' ' Tell me what the baby learns to do. ' ' 

The baby learns to talk. The baby learns how to laugh at me. 

The baby learns to walk. The baby learns how to clap his hands. 

The baby learns to pull my hair. 

Read these sentences aloud, copy as many as there is time for, and under- 
line the word learned, learn, or learns. 

2. Have the class answer the following questions, then read aloud their 
answers : 

What does a frog learn to do? Tell me what three games you learn at 
What does a baby bird learn to do? school. 

Tell me what three things you learn Tell me what our frog learned to do. 

every day. What did the baby learn? 

3. Dictate ten sentences from exercise 7. 

4. Go quickly around the class, row by row, giving the first sentence 
and having each one answer quickly in turn ; as, "I learn my spelling lesson 
every day. ' ' To the second roA¥ : ' ' The boy learned how to swim last vaca- 
tion, " etc. Have them write as many of the sentences as they can remember. 

5. Have the class write four sentences containing learn, four containing 
learns, and four containing learned. 

Set, Set, Setting. 

1. Say to the class, "Look to see what I do, listen to what I say." Then 
set a box down on the table, saying as you do so, "I set the box on the 
table. Who can set something else down and say the correct thing?" Have 
several children do so. "Noav, tell me what you did. How can we tell 

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whether we are just doing it, or whether we have done it?" "We must 
add a word or say am setting," the children will answer. 

Write the sentences they give on the board, having them add a word to 
tell when, or add ing. Have the children read the sentences aloud, then 
copy them. 

I set the box on the table five minutes I set the bookcase by the door yesterday. 

ago. Papa set up a new stove last night. 

I set the box down now. I set the vase on the desk now. 

I am setting the box on the table. I set the table for mama every day. 

I set the dishes on the table last night. I set the clock on the table before recess. 
I am setting the cup up on the shelf. 

2. Have the following commands written on the board. Call on a child 

to read, perform the act, and then tell what he did : 

Set the chair by the door. Tell Paul to set the chair by the door. 

Set the inkstand on your table. Set the dish on the table. 

Tell Tony to set the dish near you. Set the jar on the floor. 

Set the dish on my desk. Set the basket on the chair. 

Set the jar near the window. Set the chair near me. 

3. Dictate the sentences in exercise 13. 

4. Have the children write their own sentences, after placing the follow- 
ing on the board, then have them read aloud. After this they may make 
ten sentences of their own: 



We 

You 

I 

They 

He 

She 



r 



set ^ 



jar 


on the grou 


dish 




box 


near you 


trunk 


by the door 


vase 




cup 


in the yard 



5. Tell this story, have them reproduce it orally, and then in writing. 
Mark all the mistakes in set. Have them rewrite three times the sentence 
in which the mistake occurs, then write three of their own : 

Dan, his mother, and his little sister Ruth were just moving into a new house. The 
day was a very busy one for them. When evening came, they had not quite finished the 
work. Dan helped his mama very much. "Where shall I set this?" he cried, holding 
up a clock. "Set it up on the shelf near the window," said his mother. Dan set the 
clock on the shelf, and ran off to get some other things. "Help me set the bookcase 
near the door," said his mother. While Dan and his mother wei-e doing .this, Ruth set 
the dishes on the table. Soon they finished and ate their supper. Then mama read 
them a nice long story before they went to bed. 

Review. 

Those. Their. Quotations. Special Verhs. 

1. For study and dictation: 

The boy asked, "Shall I lay the blotters on the desk?" 
"Yes, those blotters are for my use," said the teacher. 
She said to the man, "Do those elephants learn their tricks easily?" 
The man replied, "It takes much patience to teach them theii- tricks." 
"Will you lay my hat beside me?" asked the old man. 
"Sef the vase on the shelf," said her mother. 
''Those red roses look very pretty," said the girl. 

"When the children learn their lessons we shall go," said the mother. 
''Those are the examples that we did yesterday," said the pupil to his teacher. 
^'Set the box where it may be easily found," said mama. 

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2. Fill in blanks : . 

The man the knife on the table. apples are good to eat. 

The girl the table nicely. I saw them books on the desk. 

I my lessons well. 

3. Write two quotations telling: 

Where the boy set the basket. 
Where the girl laid her pencil. 
What you learn at school. 

4. Write a quotation containing a question about: 

Setting away the lunch baskets. 
Laying away their clothes. 
Those toys. 

5. Sentences for copy and dictation: 

Dr. White said to his son, "Do not let those books lie on the wet grass." 

"Did those boys teach their dog to sit up?" John asked Tom. 

"Those girls taught their little sister to set the table," she said. 

"Haven't those boys learned their lessons for Tuesday?" asked the teacher. 

"Set those boxes on my table." she said. 

"Do not let those boys lie on the wet grass," said Dr. Green to their mother. 



NAMES OF BOOKS, POEMS, AND NEWSPAPERS. 

1. Ask the children the names of some of the books they have read. 

Write them in a list on the board. 

Third Reader. 

Black Beauty. 

Alice in Wonderland. 

Jungle Book. 

The Old Clock on the Stairs. 

Have the children notice that the principal words in the titles begin with 
capital letters just as the titles of their compositions do. Have them watch 
you while you make one of these into a sentence and write it upon the 
board. "We have nearly finished reading our Third Reader." Did I use 
the capital letters just as I did when writing it in the list? Is there any 
difference that you can see? Bring out the fact that when a title of a 
book, poem, or composition is used in a sentence it is sometimes inclosed in 
quotation marks. Have the children make up sentences about each of the 
books, write them upon the board, and have the children put in the quotation 
marks. These marks are not necessary. The child may put them in or not 
as he sees fit, but if they appear in one sentence, they must appear in all 
of them. 

These sentences may be used for copy, study, and dictation : 

Our teacher is reading "Black Beauty" to us. 
"Alice in Wonderland" is an interesting book. 
"The Jungle Book" was written by Kipling. 
We read "The Old Clock on the Stairs" j'esterday. 
, "Raggylug" is the story of a cotton-tail rabbit. 
"Secrets of the Woods" was written bj' William J. Long. 
I like "Alice in Wonderland" and "Black Beauty" the best of all 

the books. 
Mary is reading "Little Women." 
John will get "Robinson Crusoe" from the library Friday. 

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2. In the same way teach the children to write the names of newspapers, 

first in a list, and afterwards in sentences with the quotation marks. 

San Francisco Chronicle. The Call. 

The Evening Herald. San Francisco Examinei=. 

The Evening Bulletin. Saturday Evening Post. 

3. Sentences for copy, study, and dictation : 

My father takes the "San Francisco I sell the "Saturday Evening Post." 



Chronicle" and the "Evening Bulletin. 
John sells the "Examiner." 



The "Evening News" sells for a penny. 



4. Make three sentences of your own about books in this list : 



Fairy Tales. 
Mother Goose. 



Wilderness Ways. 
Children of the Cold. 



Make two sentences containing the names of newspapers. 
5. Learn to write this sentence : 

The books Lincoln knew by heart were "Robinson Crusoe," "^^sop's Fables." "Pilgrim's 
Progress," "History of the United States." "Life of Washington," and the "Bible." 



SUBJECT PRONOUNS. 

1. Write on the board these two sentences: "John played ball," "I 
played ball." Ask the children to combine the two, telling who played 
ball. "Write the new sentence on the board. Then read, "John walked to 
town," "I walked to town." Combine, telling who walked to town. Write 
combination on the board. In the same way use : 

John read the book. He can not come. Tom was good. 

He read the book. 



Frank picked an apple. 
He picked an apple. 

Jessie sewed yesterday. 
I sewed yesterday. 

The boy rode the horse. 
I rode the horse. 



The girl can not come. 

Tom saw the silkworms. 
He saw the silkworms. 

Jack read the book. 
Pie read the book. 

Fred may go. 
You may go. 



She was good. 

He ran home. 
She ran home. 

He did the work. 
I did the work. 



2. Have the children read in concert the combined sentences and then 
copy them. 

3. Dictate the sentences that were copied in the first lesson. 

4. Send two boys to the door. Say to one, "Who are at the door?" 

Write his reply on the board. Have the children read it aloud, then copy 

it. Ask one of the children to tell who were at the door, using only one 

name. Write the reply, read, and copy. At the end of the lesson have 

the sentences copied; as, 

Tony and I are at the door. John and we are writing on the board. • 

Tony and he were at the door. He and they were writing on the board. 



Elsie and we are at the window. 
Elsie and they were at the window. 

He and I are in one seat. 
He and I were in one seat. 

You and Ben were carrying the water. 



Elsie and I are feeding the silkworms. 
Elsie and she were feeding the silkworms. 

He and I are standing by the stove. 
He and she stood by the stove. 



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5. Put two columns 
tences; as, 



on the board, and ask the children to make sen- 



Tom and he 
Jack and she 
My brother and I 
Your sister and thej- 
They boy and we 
Joe and we 
Bessie and I 
He and I 
He and she 

6. Sentences for dictation : 



made 

walked 

rode 

saw 

wrote 

read 

came 

threw 

caught 

fed 



Ben and I play ball every day. 

He and the boys are in the garden. 

She and the girls are studying their spelling. 

7. Tom went with your family on a picnic. Tell me what kind of a time 
you had, using Tom's name. Tom went with you fishing. Tell me how 
many fish you caught, using Tom's name. 



you 
he 



she 

they 

we 



8. Use Tom and one of the words in this list in a sentence telling where 
you went in vacation, what you did, what you saw, what you caught, when 
you came back. Tell me what kind of a time you had. 

Tom and a friend go to the same school. Tell me what they do at recess, 
using Tom's name and a word from the list. Susie and your sister play 
together. Use Susie's name and a word from the list to tell what they play. 



Two Pronouns as Subject. 

9. Have the children substitute a word from the list for the italicized 
word in each of these sentences : 



he 

she 
May and I are going to the park. 
Tom and she are good friends. 
Bess and the boys live in Oakland. 



they 

we 
The boys and I were on different sides. 
Mary and we are in the same row. 



A boy and two girls went across the bay. Use any two words in the list 
to tell where they went and what they did. 

10. Have these sentences read aloud, and studied, then dictate them : 



They and I are good friends. 
Mary and he closed the door. 
Elsie and he are not going. 
He and she erased the boards. 
Jack and he are in the house. 
Mary and she walked in the woods. 
They and we are on different sides. 
Your sister and they were the only ones 
there. 



He and I ran a race. 

He and she were in school on time. 

May and she sang a song. 

Elsie and they were out in the rain. 

The two boys and we were very much 

afraid. 
He and I thought out the riddle. 
She and I went alone. 
She and he did not know it. 



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Test: Fill in the blanks. 



Henry and - 

Hattie and 
■ and 



and 



- will help you. 

- wrote a letter. 

- rode with them, 
should send us word. 

- may dust the room. 



Annie and - 

■ and 

and 

and 

and 



sent us the fruit. 

- came this evening. 

- njoved away. 

- ran across the field. 

- stood on the hill. 



Review of Quotations and Pronoun Subjects. 

1. Sentences for study and dictation : 

The boy said to his teacher, "He and I will fetch you those oranges. 

John replied, "They and I are the ones to do it." 

"Shall John and I make the lemonade?" she asked. 

"She and he were the only ones perfect," they replied. 

"John and he put their things away," said the boy to his mother. 

"I have heard," said the fox to the crow, "that you sing beautifully. 

"What can you," said the lion, "a little mouse, do for me?" 

"They and we will be on opposite sides," said the girl. 

The boy said to me, "Toin and he ride beautifully." 

Tom replied, "It was you who taught me how to ride so well." 



He and she 
John and he 
He and I 
The boys and I 



You and I 
They and I 
John and they 
The girls and he 



Make sentences using the above phrases as the beginnings 



passed by. 

were hurt in the runaway. 

caught the horse. 

will knock at the door. 



were not guilty, 
sang the song. 
ate the cherries, 
mended the chair. 



POSSESSIVE SINGULAR. 

1. Say to the class, "Who has a knife "? Tell me something about John's 
knife." Write this reply on the board: "John's knife is sharp." "Tell 
me something else. " " John 's knife has a pearl handle. ' ' 

"What did Susie get to-day? Tell me something about Susie's book." 
"Susie's book is red," "Susie's book has a picture on the cover." 

"Tell me something about Willie's pencil." In this way get such sen- 
tences as. 



John's knife is sharp. 

John's knife has a pearl handle. 

Susie's book is red. 

Susie's book has many pictures. 

Willie's pencil is red. 

2. Have these sentences copied. 

3. Write sentences about: 



Frank's pen is on the table. 
John's coat is torn. 
Ray's finger is broken. 
May's doll has a new dress. 
Lucy's pet dog is lost. 



John's pony 
Clara's sister 
The squirrel's tail 
The dog's paw 



The soldier's gun 
The boy's hat 
The man's flag 



The bird's feather 
The boat's prow 
The boy's lesson 



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4. Have the children answer these questions 



Whose coat is torn? 
Whose hat is on the table? 
Whose book is on the desk? 
Whose pencil is on the floor? 
What bird's head is red? 



What bird's breast is red? 
Whose pictures are on the wall? 
Whose composition was best to-daj'? 
Whose book is on my desk? 
Whose dog came to school to-day? 



5. Dictate the following sentences; 

My father's house was burned. 
The bird's feathers are yellow. 
Jack's boat is painted white. 
Bessie's hat has just come. 
.The polliwog's tail has just gone. 

6. Write the following" on the board : 
Whose tail is long? 



The frog's skin is green. 

The cat's fur is soft. 

The horse's tail is long. 

My sister's watch has stopped. 

My uncle's house is large. 



Whose ears are large? 

Then say, "The cow's tail is long," "The donkey's ears are large." 
Write these on the board, and have the children fill them out in the same 

way: 

fur is soft? eyes are small? • • feet are large? 

eyes are brown? 



hair is black? 



bill is long? 



7. Copy sentences from your reader that tell whose. 

8. Story for reproduction: "The Brass Bulls," by E. Louise Smythe, in 
^Old Time Stories," pages 127-130. 



Review. 



1. For study and dictation 



The man said, "Put the cow's hay in her stall." 

The boy said, "John and I have their tops." 

John and he said to me, "We told them about it." 

He and I replied, "Those are ours." 

The boy's cap is torn. 

The baby's horn is lost. 

Their dishes are not washed. 

"Tell me," said he, "if those belong to you." 

"My doll's head is broken," cried the little girl. 

"These apples are good," said I. 

She shouted to her father, "Help ! Help !" 

2. Change these groups of words so that a name will be used to show 
ownership. Make into sentences : 



the pencil of the girl 
the leg of the frog 
the story of the child 
the hat of the child 
the brother of John 



the sister of Mary 
the house of my father 
the story of my uncle 
the picture of my mother 
the ring of Mary 



PRONOUN AFTER PREPOSITION. 

Introduce this series in the same way as the last and work it out in just 
the same way. It requires many sentences read aloud by the children and 
given by the teacher and pupils, so that the ear may become accustomed 
to the proper sound. Besides this, the written form must be acquired. 



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1. Have written on the board before class time the following sentence^. 
Call upon the children to read each sentence, then to combine, as in the 
last set : 



Lucy walkeJ behind Tom. 
Lucy walked behind me. 

He wrote to Tom. 
He wrote to me. 

They walked by Tom. 
They walked by her. 

Lucy sat near Tom. 
Lucy sat near us. 

Mama thought of Tom. 
Mama thought of them. 

Lucy walked behind Tom and me. 
He wrote to Tom and me. 
They walked by Tom and her. 
Lucy sat near Tom and us. 
Mama thought of Tom and them. 



I rode with mama. 
I rode with you. 

These invitations are for sister. 
These invitations are for us. 

The hat is becoming to Lucy. 
The hat is becoming to her. 

The picture hangs over Mary. 
The picture hangs over him. 

The orchard is beyond Tom. 
The orchard is beyond us. 

I rode with mama and you. 
These invitations are for sister and us. 
The hat is becoming to Lucy and her. 
The picture hangs over Mary and him. 
The orchard is beyond Tom and us. 



2. Have the sentences of yesterday read aloud and copied. 

3. Have the children read aloud, then combine these sentences ; then read 
aloud again and copy: 



They heard about you. 
They heard about me. 

She sang for you. 
She sang for her. 

I rode with her. 
I rode with you. 

Mary spoke to them. 
Mary spoke to me. 

I sat by her. 
I sat by you. 



She went with them. 
She went with him. 

She lived with them. 
She lived with us. 

The boy spoke to him 
The boy spoke to her. 

The man wrote to him. 
The man wrote to me. 

The baby ran to her. 
The baby ran to me. 



4. 

him and me 
him and his brother 
her and us 
Lucy and me 



them and you 
him and her 
father and us 
them and us 



him and us 
him and her 
her and me 



Have the children Avrite sentences using one of the above expressions in 

answer to the following questions. The sentences may then be read aloud : 

To whom did mama write? With whom did you sing? 

With whom did you walk? With whom did you play? 

From whom did you run? For whom did you work? 

By whom did you sit? To whom did you write? 

To whom did you speak? From whom did the teacher take a book? 

Near whom did you walk? About whom did the author write? 



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5. Dictate the following sentences: 

I sat near Lucy and him. The lady amused Tom and me. 

He sent word to Frank and her. There is no quarrel between them and me. 

Harry will ride with them and you. We divided a cake among them and us. 

They sent me for mama and him. The book fell behind father and me. 

The children played with him and her. The teacher talked to her and us. 

6. Write the following on the board, and have sentences made, the blanks • 

to be filled in with some other word than a name. The sentences may then 

be read aloud by the class : 

sat near and father. sang to and them. 

■ walked with and sister. spoke to and her. 

ran' between and mother. thought of and the boy. 

J played for and us. quarrel between and her dog. 

7. Test : Fill in the blanks with some other words than names : 

They told me about • and . My mother played for and -. 

We walked with and . The children ran from and . 

She sang to and . The boys went fishing with and . 

We worked for and . We gave fifty cents to and . 

STORIES FOR REVIEW. 

Purpose and Method. — The teacher will know by this time the points 
upon which most of the children are weak. After the story is told, the 
forms upon which the children are likely to fail should be placed upon the 
board and sentences made from them; or ciuestions may be asked so that 
the required form will be used in the answer, this to be written on the 
board. The forms may be put on the board, the teacher calling attention to 
them, and asking that as many as possible be brought into the reproduction. 

A Story About Two Frogs. 
Two frogs lived in a pond. It was very warm. The pond dried up. 
The frogs had to jump away. They looked for some water. Soon they came 
to a deep well. There was a little water in the well. One frog said, "Let 
us jump in." ''No, we can not jump out, if the water dries up," said the 
other. 

The Golden Touch. 

Once*there was a king named Midas. He loved gold more than anything 
else in the world. He was counting out his money one day when a strange 
man came in. "You are rich," said the stranger. "Yes; but I have not 
enough," said Midas. "How much would it take to satisfy you?" asked 
the stranger. "If everything I touch would turn to gold it would be 
enough," replied Midas. "You shall have your wish," said the stranger. 
So he went away. 

Next morning King Midas arose. He touched his clothes and they became 
clothes of gold. "How beautiful everything will be," thought he. He 
went out into the garden. "Turn to gold," he said to the flowers as. he 
touched them. They turned to gold. 

Then he went in to breakfast, but everything he tried to eat turned to 
gold. Soon his beautiful daughter came in. She ran up to bid her father 
good morning. The king kissed her, saying, ' ' Go.od morning, dear child. 
Then she, too, turned to gold. (loi) 



' ' I can not live without my daughter, ' ' he cried. ' ' I would give all my 
money if I could get her back. ' ' 

Soon the stranger came. "Oh, give me back my child," cried the king. 
*'Do you not wish the golden touch?" he asked. "Just give me back my 
daughter and I will be happy, ' ' he replied. "Go to the river and bathe, ' ' 
said the stranger. King Midas ran quickly to the river, and soon returned. 
He touched his daughter first. She turned back into his own child. Then 
he touched his clothes and the flowers. Everything became as it was at 
first. Now the king does not love gold so much as he did. 

TEST SENTENCES. 

The "Examiner" did not come last Thanksgiving Daj'. 

After Christmas we will take the "Evening Post." 

We had a good time the Fourth of July. 

Washington's Birthday and Admission Day are holidays. 

Did the "Chronicle" come May Day? 

The two boys brought the "Bulletin" and "Call" to school. 

Did you bring flowers Decoration Day? 

We are going away either New Year's Day or Labor Day. 

Mrs. Brown said, "We are going away the first Wednesday in September." 

December, January, and February are the winter months. 

The last Thursday in November is Thanksgiving Day. 

"Are you coming here Admission Day?" asked Mr. May. 

Dr. Brown asked, "Did the Fourth of July come on Tuesday?" 

The children will sing every Saturday and Sunday in August and October. 

"Labor Day, New Year's Day, and Washington's Birthday are holidays," said 

Miss Jones. 
The two boys went to the country last spring. 
John asked, "Are you going away in autumn?" 
We are going there every Wednesday in summer. 
Mrs. Jones said, "They will bring their sisters to school Thursday." 
The girls will sing their songs October 10, 1907. 
The children went to the picnic February 2, 1900. 
There were many people in San Francisco December 8, 1882. 
We are going there November 8, 1910. 
The people took their children to the park either August 8, 1782, or 

January 9, 1801. 
September 8, 1906, was my birthday. 
Didn't you have a good time July 4, 1904? 
The "Examiner" did not come last Thursday. 
The two boys brought the "Call" home Saturday. 
John said, "This is Thanksgiving Day." 
We will take the "Chronicle" after Christmas. 
Aren't you going to read the "Bulletin?" 
The girl asked, "Is Washington's Birthday a holiday?". 
The boys were too late to get the "Evening Post." 
Wasn't the boy here Wednesday? 

The two boys will leave the first Wednesday in February. 
There were too many people at the meeting September 8, 1905. 
Did the two boys find their books last Tuesday? 
John and May went to school January 6, 1906. 
We were too tired Sunday to go. 
They left the city Saturday, November 8, 1802. " 
The girls were going to sing Thursday, October 8, 1902. 
There were sixteen boys in the room. 
Ninety-six men were in the parade Thanksgiving Day. 
Mrs. Brown paid $25 for her coat. 
Didn't you see the four girls last Wednesday? 
Fifty-eight dollars were paid by the man last Tuesday. 
They had eighty-five books in the library. 

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"Have you $45?" asked Mr. Jones. 

There are twelve months in the year. 

Ten dollars was the cost of the book. 

The little girl had twenty pencils. 

Can't you come to our house? 

"We went to their house," said John. 

"Doesn't she sing?" he asked. 

There are two books on the desk. 

May I go home, too? 

May asked, "Wasn't that their house?" 

Isn't your dress new? 

She gave John two apples. 

"Give the book to me," said Alice. 

She ate too much cake. 

Are there many boys in the yard? 

Mrs. Jones asked, "Is it four o'clock?" 

Dr. White said, "I will be there at 4.30 p. m." 

We are going Wednesday at 5.20 a. m. 

Miss Reed left Thursday at two o'clock. 

"Is 2.20 p. m. too late to go?" asked Mr. Brown. 

The two boys are going home at 10 a. m. 

''We will go to school Friday at nine o'clock," said John. 

Some Italian children learn to read English. 

The Spanish boy learned to write last year. 

The baby learns to clap his hands, too. 

We learn to work examples every day. 

The American boy is learning to write in school. 

My dog learned to jump rope last February. 

The two boys are learning their lessons every night. 

To-morrow we will learn to spell. 

The little boy learns to play tag. 

Didn't you hear the Germans sing their songs last Thursday? 

Weren't there two boys in the school Saturday? 

I'm going to the meeting of the Spanish and French people next Tuesday. 

There were too many Chinese and Japanese in San Francisco. 

Isn't their room too small to hold all the friends of the Americans next Sunday? 

Haven't the English people been invited to go on Monday and Wednesday? 

He hasn't their books. 

Doesn't the Scotch boy come Friday? 

Dr. Brown said, "The two boys are going away either in October or November." 

There were too many children there Wednesday at four o'clock. 

The girls brought their sisters to school Tuesday. 

The last Thursday in November is Thanksgiving Day. 

Mrs. Jones asked, "Is 10 a. m. too late to go?" 

We are going away, too, next Sunday at 2 p. m. 

Miss Brown said, "December, January, and February are very cold months." 

New Year's Day, Christmas, Decoration Day, and Admission Day are holidays 

Aren't you going to school next Tuesday? 

The boy doesn't know his lessons. 

Mary said, "I'm going to leave Saturday." 

We haven't seen the two boys to-day. 

Wasn't the little girl here Wednesday? 

The teacher asked, "Isn't this your book?" 

The child hasn't found his hat. 

"Don't leave your books in school," she said. 

We hadn't been to see you before. 

Didn't the girl sing for you? 

The boys will bring their books to-morrow. 

The two girls will come Monday and Tuesday. 

There were too many people there Sunday. 

Didn't they sing their songs to-day? 
We will try to go either Wednesday or Saturday. 
Will they sing to-night? 

Aren't you going Thursday and Friday, too? 

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EXERCISES FOR THE GRAMMAR GRADES. 



This work for the Grammar Grades is a continuation of the Primary 
Grade work, and is based on the same principles — the formation of habits, 
the correction of errors and frequent reviews. 

The thing to be done is explained as briefly and as clearly as possible. 
After this it is done over and over again until the doing of it is without 
reference to any statement or explanation that has been made ; in fact, until 
it becomes a habit. 

Sentences alone are of little use. Neither children nor adults are called 
upon in life to write disconnected sentences. Paragraphs for the applica- 
tion of the facts learned will be found. As has been stated in the Introduc- 
tion, the application of this knowledge to original work does not follow. 
The Bulletin on Composition, which will soon be published, outlines the 
work for which this Bulletin is only an accompaniment. 

With each new topic there is a simple statement of the fact presented, 
followed by a series of sentences. Eead the first sentence and apply the 
statement. Have the children finish the sentences in the same way. If 
the topic is entirely new to the children, follow the method given under 
Primary Work. 

As in most cases, the facts to be learned are used in writing only, as 
contractions, abbreviations, punctuation; written work should be begun at 
once. Give much practice at the board, where the work of all the children 
can be seen. If a mistake is made, call for the statement. Otherwise dictate 
a new sentence. 

When the sentences can be correctly w^ritten from dictation, put them on 
the board without the marks in question. To illustrate: If the use of 
quotation marks is being taught, put the sentences on without the quotation 
marks first, then without either capitals, commas, or quotation marks. Have 
the children rewrite, putting in the punctuation marks. 

Dictation paragraphs and original compositions, such as letters, postal 
cards, stories, etc., must follow to fix the habit. 

Collect the children's papers; indicate in the margin the sentence that 
contains an error. Return the papers, have the children find the error, 
apply the statement, and rewrite the sentence. Use this same method for 
correcting the paragraph dictations. 

The children may exchange papers and look them over, indicating in the 
margin any error found. Return the papers to the writers, and have the 
errors corrected as before. 

Lessons headed Correction of Errors are given in the same way, except 
that more time is spent on oral work, in which the error is made in speaking 
more than in writing. Ain't is a good illustration of a word that is often 
spoken, but seldom written. 



GRADING* 

This work has not been divided for the various grades. If the children 
have done well the work for the Primary" Grades, the remainder can easily 
be done in two years with a thirty-minute recitation twice a week. If it 
has not been done, four years will probably be necessary. Pages 106 to 119 
should be assigned to the Fifth Grade, pages 119 to 133 for the Sixth Grade, 
133 to 143 for the Seventh Grade, and 143 to 154 for the Eighth. 
- If the Bulletin is completed at the end of the sixth year, at least one 
lesson a week in language should be given during the remainder of their 
school time to keep it fresh in the memory. T.he work need not be done 
in order, but those subjects selected in which their daily compositions show 
them to be weak. 

DAILY DRILLS. 

While this Bulletin contains much material worked out at length, the 
author feels that a few drills given daily will help more toward acquiring 
correct forms than the study of too many details. 

An excellent exercise to correct the most glaring errors in daily conversa- 
tion and writing is this : Every morning, or at least three times every week, 
read one at a time, the sentences under the column headed Teacher. Have 
the children give in concert the correct form, which will be found in the 
column headed Pupil. This exercise continued every day for a year or 
more will make the children not only recognize that certain forms are wrong, 
but will also through constant association bring to their minds the correct 
form. This has been tried with children in the receiving class, and has been 
found very successful. Many of the children called attention during the 
dav to errors made in the general conversation. 



Ungrammatical Expressions. 



Teacher. 



I seen it. 

He has rode very often. 

He has saw it many times. 

He learned me my spelling. 

Lay down, Rover. 

She sets beside me. 

I ain't got no pen. 

I did my work good. 

I had ought to go. 

He don't like his neighbor. 

Please give me them there oranges. 

Leave go the ball. 

Was you at the picnic? 

The children haven't no chalk. 

He acted like he was mad. 

She is awful nice. 

He is very bad off. 

I hadn't ought to have went. 

They may of did it. 

I like those kind of apples. 

There ain't no book here. 

No one has give me their book. 

She left go of the rope. 



Pupil. 
I saw it. 

He has ridden very often. 
He has seen it many times. 
He taught me my spelling. 
Lie down, Rover. 
She sits "beside me. 
I haven't any pen. 
I did my work well. 
I ought to go. 

He doesn't like his neighbor. 
Please give me those oranges. 
Let go the ball. 
Were you at the picnic? 
The children haven't any chalk. 
He acted as if he were angry. 
She is very nice. 
He is very badly off. 
I ought not to have gone. 
They may have done it. 
I like that kind of apples. 
There is no book here. 
No one has given me his book. 
She let go the rope. 



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Neither James nor Frank has lost 

their hat. 
It was her who done it. 
He is taller than me. 
Give me them things. 
The boy and his sister was lost. 
Where have you been to? 
Is it me you are talking about? 
I did my work good. 
The boat moved slow. 
He carried the message safe. 
I have learned to skate good. 
They treated him very nice. 
I feel good. 
The boys walked quiet. 
He felt very bad. 
My father slept sound. 
He put on his coat very quick. 
He won the race very easy. 
She was dressed very nice. 
The car stopped sudden. 
He writes good. 
She sings very sweet. 
The sick lady looks very bad. 



Neither James nor Frank has lost his 

hat. 
It was she who did it. 
He is taller than I. 
Give me those things. 
The boy and his sister were lost. 
Where have you been? 
Is it I you are talking about? 
I did my work well. 
The boat moved slowly. 
He carried the message safely. 
I have learned to skate well. 
They treated him very well. 
I feel well. 

The boys walked quietly. 
He felt very ill (or badly). 
My father slept soundly. 
He put on his coat very quickly. 
He won the race very easily. 
She was dressed very nicely. 
The car stopped suddenly. 
He writes well. 
She sings very sweetly. 
The sick lady looks very badly. 



Inelegant Expressions. 



The boy fell off of the car. 

He is mad at me. 

She is awfully nice. 

He made a terribly funny speech. 

I have a perfectly lovely hat. 

Isn't this a dear dress? 

There were lots of people there. 



The boy fell off the car. 

He is angry v/ith me. 

She is very nice. 

He made a very funny speech. 

I have a very pretty hat. 

Isn't this a pretty dress? 

There were many people there. 



Will you loan me your knife (yes)? 
He learned me my spelling. 
The man looked very funny. 
They were to blame theirselves. 
He walked acrost the bridge. 
I feel nicely, thank you. 



Use of the Wrong Word. 

Will you lend me your knife? 
He taught me my spelling. 
The man looked very queer. 
They vv-ere to blame themselves. 
He walked across the bridge. 
I feel well, thank you. 



CORRECTION OF ERRORS. 

There are some words that are used incorrectly so frequently that many 
people, especially children, do not recognize them as wrong. It is just as 
necessary to know that they are wrong as to know that certain other forms 
are right. 

Some words and phrases are incorrect only under certain circumstances. 
Such words are like, except, between, was, etc. The list below contains only 
those words or phrases that are wrong always under every circumstance. 
This list the children should commit to memory. It should be made very 
clear to them that the forms are wrong whenever they are used. The 
correct form should also be taught. 

It is true, too, that the children may be able to say off of is wrong. Off 
or from is right, and yet not recognize the error in a sentence. On this 
account the work would not be complete without some sentence work. The 

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language form for this should be the same as in the list work, 
wrong. Off or from is right (as the case may be) . 



Off of is 



off of — off or from 

for to — to 

use to — used to 

had ought to — should 

hadn't ought to — should not 

may of — may have 

might of — might have 

must of — must have 

could of — could have 

should of — should have 

would of — would have 

had of — had 

had have — had 

he don't — he doesn't 

she don't — she doesn't 



left go — let go 
leave go — let go 
this here — this 
these here — these 
that there — that 
those there — those 
them there — those 
you was — you were 
haven't no— haven't any 
ain't no — isn't any 
have went — have gone 
have saw — have seen 
have did — have done 
have rode — have ridden 
haven't any 
hasnt' any 



ain't got- 



Correct the errors, using the proper language form. For method see 
Lesson 1, under Words in Pairs : 

for to 

1. The barometer is used for to get the pressure of the air. 

2. The Capitol Building is used for to make laws. 

3. Natural gas is used for to cook with. 

4. They came to North America hunting a place for to worship God in their own way. 

5. It was time for to go to bed. 

6. It is now ready for to be sent to the factory. 

7. They made the boat ready for to sail that day. 

8. They use the vanilla bean for to make vanilla. 

9. The Legislature is for to make laws. 



use to 

1. We use to play in the street every night. 

2. We use to leave school every afternoon at three o'clock. 

3. Miss Smith use to live in San Francisco. 

4. The Indians use to be the only people living in America. 

5. Theodore Roosevelt use to be the President of the United States. 

6. Rome use to be a great city. 

7. We use to go to the beach every Saturday. 



off Of 

1. As soon as I got off of the horse, I went to bed. 

2. After gathering together our books and bundles we got off of the car. 

3. They took us into a little room just off of the main hall. 

4. We got off of the car. 

5. The baby fell off of the porch. 

6. The boy rode off of the cliff. 

7. The bey who stepped off of the moving car was killed. 

8. Many oranges dropped off of the trees during the storm. 

9. The sick woman jumped off of the ferry-boat to end her troubles. 

10. He tore a piece of paper off of the wall. 

11. He knew that he might be hurt if he jumped off of the running horse. 

12. The girl fell off of the tree by the house. 



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may of must of could of had of 

1. 1 would of gone if I could of got off. 

2. He may of gone to town. 

3. If I had of known it, I wouldn't of gone there. 

4. The lesson might of been learned, if I hadn't of been sick. 

5. The boy wouldn't of cried, if he had of been brave. 

6. I must of been there at one time. 

7. Would you of gone, if you had of been well? 

ought 
Statement: Had is never used with ought. Ought to of is wrong. 
Should have is right. 
Correct : 

1. He ought to of gone. 

2. Henry ought to of gone to bed earlier last night. 

3. You hadn't ought to of done it. 

4. Clara ought to of thought more quickly. 

5. The train hadn't ought to stop so suddenly. 

6. Hadn't he ought to go? 

7. I had ought to know better. 

8. You ought not to of laughed so much. 

9. The children ought to of left the car at Main street. 
10. Hadn't you ought to of gone to Los Angeles to-day? 

Double Subject. 

Statement : They is unnecessary. 

1. These dogs they watch the sheep. 

2. Columbus after eighteen years he succeeded in getting what he wanted. 

3. Some little boys they caught a rabbit. 

4. Rose Red she was a good little girl. 

5. The next day the boy he ran away from home. 

6. My mother she puts the bread away over night to get light. 

7. My sister she doesn't like to ride on the water. 

8. The fox he jumped as high as he could. 

9. The pigmies they are as little as we are. 

Miscellaneous Sentences for Correction. 

1. No, he don't ever do that. 

2. Leave go the rope. 

3. Why have you left go of him? 

4. That there house isn't very pretty. 

5. My father don't ever whip me. 

6. Don't your mother ever take you to parties? 

7. I ain't got your old hat. 

8. These here shoes always hurt me. 

9. You come to this here place right away. 

10. I won't leave go of your hair. 

11. I haven't no time now. 

12. There ain't no apples left. 

13. Why don't he come home? 

14. You leave go of my hair. 

15. Don't she talk to you now? 

16. Those there strawberries taste fine. 

17. My teacher don't call on me very often. 

18. I know that them there oranges are sour. 

19. I haven't no pencil, teacher. 

20. Mama, he won't leave go of my hand. 

21. Say, I want this here apple. 

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22. Don't this here cake look fine? 

23. I ain't no baby, either. 

24. Teacher, he left go of my paper. 

25. These here cakes are awfully good. 

26. I held a hold my mother's hand. 

27. Lots of the boys laughed. 

28. She called to my house. 

29. It didn't take me long to go my errands. 

30. We took the car and I and my brother went home. 

31. The next morning her brother and her went out again. 

32. Along the edge of the Indians' clothes they have fringes. 

33. On their heads they have large feathers. 

34. Outside of the log cabin it had chairs made of logs. 

35. The name of the play it is the Prince Chap. 

*Review. 

This dictation contains contractions, proper names, and quotations. If 

the children have not had these topics, omit until some future time. 

"Aunt Clara," asked Rob one day, as he ran into the house almost breathless, "what 
bird is that out in the oak tree?" "That's a woodpecker,',' was the reply. "Haven't you 
ever seen one before?" "No." answered Rob, "but I've been watching that one for 
some time." "Wouldn't you like to have me tell you something about woodpeckers?" 
asked his aunt. "Yes, if you aren't too busy," replied Rob. 

This dictation contains dates, quotations and pairs of words. If the 
children have not had these topics, omit until some future date. 

We lived in a college town. Every one knew grandfather and knew, too, that his 
birthday was the twelfth of May. "His ninetieth birthday is just two days away. Let's 
give him a celebration," said some one. 

Preparations were made and on the appointed day a very jolly crowd assembled. 
Games were played in which grandfather took part. The afternoon passed rapidly. The 
ladies served refreshments. Soon all left for their homes, wishing that grandfather 
might live to have many birthdays. 

WORDS IN PAIRS. 

So many mistakes are made with words that are pronounced alike but 
spelled differently that these beginning lessons are given. In the first part 
of this Bulletin the common homophones are used over and over again in 
sentences in their correct meaning with no attention called especially to 
those' words. In fact both words of the pair are omitted at first from the 
same sentence, and as far as possible from the same lesson. To illustrate : 
if rode were used in a sentence, road would not be used in the same sentence 
and not even in the same lesson until it had been given many times and the 
children were quite familiar with both forms. 

Inasmuch as the children would have to go over all the sentences in the 
Bulletin to get this drill, these first few are added to help those who have 
not had the primary work. These homophones are used over and over again 
throughout the remainder of this Bulletin. 

The sentences containing the review of the work done in the Primary 
Grades are grouped together. If the children have not done the earlier 
work these sentences may be omitted and a review substituted of the topics 
in which they are weak. For this review, methods and sentences will be 
found in the first part of the Bulletin devoted tothe work of the first four 
grades. After this review give the sentences for Grammar Grades. 



*Review refers to the primary work. (109) 



Lesson I. 

Have on the blackboard the following sentences : 

1. I put two peaches into the box. 

2. She has two apples. 

3. Mary has two pens. 

4. John missed two words. 

5. Have you two pieces of chalk? 

6. He rode two miles. 

7. Did you receive two dollars for your work? 

8. This makes two times that it has occurred. 

9. He wrote two lines very straight. 

10. I need two more marbles for my collection. 

Say to the children, Two means a number. Therefore two is spelled 
t — w—o. Read the next sentence. Tell the same story. After three or four 
sentences have been given show the children how to write the sentence and 
statement. (Leave a paragraph margin about one inch wide. When the 
work is finished it should look like this.) 

1. I put two peaches into the box. 

Two means a number. Therefore two is spelled t — w — o. 

2. I need two more marbles for my collection. 

Two means a number. Therefore two is spelled t — w — o. 



Lesson II. 

Do Lesson II in the same way. The statement this time is too means 
more than. Therefore, too is spelled t — o — o. 

1. The boy ran too fast. 

2. The day was too warm for comfort. 

3. The road was too crooked for a race. 

4. This seat is too low for my niece. 

5. The boys are too far away. 

6. She is too ill. 



Too means also. Therefore, too is spelled t — o — o. 

7. They will go, too. 

8. Will you go, too? 

9. This seat is too high, too. 
10. His coat was torn, too. 



Lesson III. 

This lesson may be a combination of Lessons I and II. Have a few 
minutes for oral work, but the greater part of the time should be spent in 
writing. We can make no error in saying two, but we can make mistakes 
in writing. Spend as much time as possible dictating sentences to the 
children at the board. 

1. He walked two miles. 

2. She is too far behind in the race. 

3. Your book is there, too. 

4. May would have gone, too, but she was too sick. 

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5. Two girls may go with me. 

6. She walked too slowly. 

7. Where are the two boys going? 

8. The two hats were too small for the children. 

9. There is not enough for you and me, too. 
10. Two books are too many for one day. 



Lesson IV. 

Write these sentences on the board. Point out to the children the fact 
that the to in the sentence does not refer to number, does not mean also, 
or more than. Therefore to is spelled t — o. We might explain to the 
children that to is the sign of the infinitive or a preposition, but it would 
take much longer than to learn to use the rather cumbersome statement: 
To does not mean number, also, or more than. Therefore, to is spelled t — o. 

1. John went to the park. 

2. Do you go to the circus? 

3. I went to town yesterday. 

4. He tried to make a boat. 

5. They would like to play with you. 

6. When are you coming to see me? 

7. The children went to the park to play. 

8. I like to put my clothes carefully away. 

9. Did John come to school to-day? 
10. He went to the country to rest. 



Lesson V. 

The statement is to be used only until the children understand how to 
use the correct words. After this has been accomplished, drill and drill 
only is needed to fix it, then much review to keep it from being forgotten. 
The best drill is dictation at the board with the teacher's eye on the work. 
The statement need not be called for unless a child makes a mistake. For 
paper work, filling in blanks is a good exercise. The only other one is 
making up sentences. The work should be corrected every day by the 
teacher, who indicates by a line in the margin that a mistake in the use of 
two, too, to has been made. The child should then give the rule and rewrite 
the sentence. 

The following sentences may be used for dictation and filling in blanks : 

1. The girls came ■ — ■ see me last night. 

2. I went the party . 

3. The boy missed words. 

4. The boys were noisy. 

5. The work was easy. 

6. miles are many walk at one time. 

7. The boys ate much candy on the way the city. 

8. It is windy go out. 

9. Will you take the children the park ? 

10. The boys were late catch the train. 

11. The man gave many apples the boy. 

12. Are you going climb the top of those trees ? 



13. The boys lost their tickets when they went ■. — the country. 

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There — their. 

Statement: There means in that place. Therefore there is spelled 
t — h — e — /• — e. 

1. The pen is there on the desk. 

2. Put the book there. 

3. The books are there on the table. 

4. There is your hat. 

5. Did they put the hats there? 

6. Mary went there, too. 

7. Leave the paper there on the desk. . 
S. Did they arrive there too late? - 
9. I am going there to-night. 

10. There is the place to put the maps. 

11. I saw two people over there. 

Statement : There is used with is, are, was, were, will be, should be, 
should have been, etc. Therefore, there is spelled t — h — e — r — e. Do not 
have the children enumerate the various forms of the verb he every time, 
but give just the form used in the sentence. Drill on the difference between 
the use of there in such a sentence as No. 4, and No. 1 below. In one case 
there means in that place, in the other there is used with is. 

1. There is a pen on the table. 

2. There were many people disappointed when it rained. 

3. There was a party to-night at the church. 

4. There will be a holiday to-morrow. 

5. There have been many presidents of the United States. 

6. There should be more attention given to writing well. 

7. There are two children sitting over there. 

8. There were too many at the board to write well. 

9. He sings there too often to be afraid. ^ 
10. There shall be many called, but few chosen. 

Fill in blanks : 

1. is a book on the table. 

2. are four children in the room. 

3. My coat is . 

4. is a ball too. 

5. will be more rain soon. 

(3. They arrived before we did. 

7. Over on the table, is a vase filled with roses. 

8. They are living now. 

9. was a book over yesterday. 

10. I left the pens . 

Statement : Whose books ? Their books. Therefore, their is spelled 
t — h — e — i — r. 

1. Their books are in their desks. 

2. They went to visit their sister. 

3. Their father went to the city. 

4. Their lunches are in their baskets. 

5. Did you tell their mothers about it? 

6. Their hats are on their desks. 

7. They have many things in their boxes. 

8. Where are their parents sending them to school? 

9. Two frogs turned their eyes toward the cool water. 
10. The girls thought that they knew their lessons. 

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Fill in blanks : 

1. toys are on the table. 

2. dresses are torn. 



3. Why did they leave books here? 

4. shoes were worn out. 

5. hats were on the hooks. 

6. Mary and Edith are playing with baby sister. 

7. Put pens on desks. 

8. May I put hats in places? 

9. They lost books in the fire. 

10. books are in desks. 



Their, there. Fill in blanks 



1. They left hats over . 

2. will be a company of soldiers . 

3. Why did you put coats and hats over ? 

4. If they had known that lives were in danger they would not have gone 



books and pens should be 



6. shouldn't be any marks in books. 

7. names were written . 

8. are books. 

9. is my sister on porch? 

]0. Do many of friends live now? 



Review. 

to, two, too, their, there. 
Sentences for dictation or to fill in blanks : 

1. Which of their two drawings do you choose? 

2. I put two of their books there last night. 

3. There was a pen on the table, too. 

4. Two children went there to see her on their way to school. 

5. Would you like to read their letters, too. John? 

6. Are there not two too many there to do their work well? 

7. A boy is never too old to learn. 

8. May I hang their hats there, too? 

9. In the sun their steel armor shone too brightly to look at. 

10. They two boys have grown too large for their pony cart. 

11. It takes two to make a pair. 

12. There should be two pears for each child. 

13. The two boys are going there to fish with their grandfather. 

14. Can you go, too? 

15. These two desks seem too high to be used. 

16. Do you live two blocks from there, too? 

17. There have been two pupils from this class who have received a medal. 

18. We ran two blocks to get there before it was too late. 

19. We are going to the mountains to visit two friends living there. 

20. I, too, shall be at the gate to meet her. 

21. Their captains guided the two ships through the dangerous strait. 

22. Are their hats in our room, too? 

23. Their father went to the city to buy two horses. 

24. Are you going to take your two brothers to the game, too? 

25. Two times two are four. 

26. Is it too late to tell the story to-night? 

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To introduce no, by, sum. 

Statement : No denies. Therefore, no is spelled n — o. 

By means near. Therefore, hy is spelled h — y. 

Sum refers to amount. Therefore, sum is spelled s — u — m. 

1. No, she did not go there. 

2. The house is by the road. 

3. The sum of two and two is four. 

4. Their books did not cost a large sum. 

5. No, the boys did not find the right sum. 

6. There is a mill by the stream. i 

7. No, you can not go to the city to-day. 

8. No sum is large enough to pay for honesty. 

9. There is no time like the present to do your task. 

10. She likes to stand by the blacksmith while he is working. 

To introduce know, buy, some. 

Statement: Enow refers to knowledge. Therefore, know is spelled 
k — n — — w. 

Buy means to purchase. Therefore, huy is spelled h — u — y. 
Some means more or less. Therefore, some is spelled s — o — m — e. 

1. I know where to go. 

2. He will buy some candy to-day. 

3. Do you know your lesson, too? 

4. If you lose your book you must buy another one. 

5. Some leaves fell on the sidewalk Tuesday. 

6. If you do not know what to do the teacher will tell you. 

7. The two boys knew their lessons better than the girls. 

8. Shall I buy some flowers for you to carry to the sick girl? 

9. He didn't know which way to go. 

10. I do not know that I can buy the book. 

know — no — now 
hy — huy some — sum 

1. In olden times very few people knew how to read. 

2. Then, too, there were no good teachers. 

3. Has some one gone to buy a new grate for their steel range? 

4. No, I do not know who passed by there just now. 

5. Their house was destroyed by fire when no one was there. 

6. The squirrels seem to know that the wet season is now here. 

7. No, there is no need of their going to too much trouble for the two children. 

8. The fox told them to go away from there or he would eat them and their cheese, 

too. 

9. They ran down the road too much afraid to complain of their troubles. 

10. Do the two boys know their lessons now? 

11. No, they were too tired to learn them. 

12. John went to the store to buy two dozen eggs and some oranges, too. 

13. We shall know the sum of their report by to-morrow. 

14. Some of the children could not get the sum of their columns. 

15. Did you know that some of those silks have been brought from India? 

To introduce hear, peace, deer. 

Statement: Hear refers to hearing with the ears. Therefore, hear is 
spelled h — e — a — r. 

Peace means quiet. Therefore, peace is spelled p — e — a — c — e. 
Deer is an animal. Therefore, deer is spelled d — e — e — r. 

1. Did you hear the two boys sing yesterday? 

2. They will buy two deer for the park to-morrow. 

3. I do not know how soon there will be peace in Turkey. 

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4. They will hear some news from home Wednesday. 

5. He will hear the sum of the whole matter very soon. 

6. Christmas is the time of peace on earth and good will toward men. 

7. The deer was feeding by the pond. 

8. Shall we hear about their adventures? 

9. They passed by the house where the peace conference was being held. 

To introduce here, piece, dear. 

Statement: Eere means in this place. Therefore, here is spelled 
h, — e — r — e. 

Piece means a part. Therefore, piece is spelled p—i—e—c—e. 

Dear means beloved. Therefore, dear is spelled d—e—a—r. Dear means 
costly. Therefore, dear is spelled d — e — a — r. 

1. Here is your "piece of pie. 

2. The house by the hill is very dear. 

3. Do you know the man who lives here? 

4. There are some books that you should buy at once. 

5. We know that we shall stay here until to-morrow. 

6. Strawberries are too dear to buy at this season of the year. 

7. Their dolls were broken into many pieces. 

8. Some people there are who know that wrong doing is dear at any price. 

9. It was very difficult to understand when two people were here talking at once. 

10. She did not know what to say to the dear little child. 

here — hear 
piece— peace dear— deer 



Review. 

1. Will their father buy that piece of property for a deer park? 

2. The two countries, after hearing the reports of their generals, were only too 

willing to declare peace. 

3. John and Frank were here with their mother before they went to hear the debate. 

4. Here where the capitol is now standing a great battle was fought. 
. .5. A herd of deer passed by here two months ago. 

6. The dear little fellow was too frightened to know what their mother was saying 

to him. 

7. I know that that piece of material is too dear to buy for their dresses. 

8. No one knew that peace had been declared until the bell rang out the glad news. 

9. Do you not think that some of the pieces are too large for that quilt? 

10. I shall buy some deer meat while you are here so that you may know what it is like. 

11. Now we shall hear some music by the great composers. 

12. He passed by here with some lumber in his wagon a short time ago. 

io— two— too their— there hear— here peace— piece deer— dear 
Review of Primary Text. {See pages 102 and 103.) 

1. Those two boys went to Berkeley on the 2 p. m. boat to hear the concert. 

2. "That piece of land is too dear for their father to buy," said Mr. Jones. 

3. They took their cousins to see the deer in Golden Gate Park. 

4. Their mother gave the two boys a piece of pie. 

5. The treaty of peace was signed here Wednesday, August 3. 

6. "Did yoii hear the firecrackers Fourth of July?" asked Miss Smith. 

7. There was a celebration here Admission Day. 

8. There are many deer in California. 

9. "There is a dear little boy over there," said Mrs. Smith. 

10. Did you hear that their friends had come to San Francisco? 

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To introduce meat, hour, week, road. 

Statement : 3Ieat is a food. Therefore, meat is spelled m — e — a — t. 
Hour refers to the time of day. Therefore, hour is spelled /( — o — u — r. 
Week refers to a part of the month. Therefore, week is spelled 
IV — e — e — k. 

Road means a path. Therefore, road is spelled r — o — a — d. 

1. Did the butcher send the meat for dinner? 

2. The boy worked an hour last night. 

3. There will be vacation next week. 

4. The road to the country was lined with beautiful trees. 

5. We spent many hours every week driving along the pretty road. 

6. Some people eat meat only three times a week. 

7. Meat is shipped from Chicago all over the world. 

8. An hour a day is not too much to spend in play. 

9. It is cheaper to buy milk by the week than by the day. 
10. They lost their road many times before arriving here. 

To introduce meet, our, weak, rode. 

Statement : Meet means to come together. Therefore, meet is spelled 
m — e — e — t. Meet means to join. Therefore, meet is spelled m — e — e — t. 
Our shows ownership. Therefore, our is spelled o — u — r. 
Weak means not strong. Therefore, weak is spelled w — e — a — k. 
Bode refers to riding. Therefore, rode is spelled r — o — d — e. 

1. Shall we meet you at our house? 

2. The little girl was too weak to sit up. 

3. We rode by a house where some grape vines were growing. 

4. No, our cities in America are not like yours. 

5. There are many who do not know that our richest men are often weak when they 

should be strong. 

6. Two deer were feeding by the fence when we rode by. 

7. Our party will meet you at the park long road. 

8. The weak child rode too far. 

9. The weak boy rode to meet us at our house. 
10. Did our carriage meet you at the station? 

Review. 

meet — m.eat our — are — Jiour weak — week rode — road 

1. At what hour are our men to be there? 

2. You know there is no use going to meet them at this hour. 

3. Here is the road they rode over a week ago on their way to our house. 

4. The two men had been in their cells so long that they were pale and weak from 

their long confinement. 

5. At the hour of two our men knew of their danger by the light hung in the tower. 

6. A carriage will be there to meet our party and take us driving for two hours. 

7. Are you not afraid that our horses are too weak and tired to climb that mountain 

road ? 

8. During the last war some of our soldiers were poisoned by the meat sent to them. 

9. Last week two men were here and wished to buy that piece of land. 

10. Are you not afraid to ride along that dark road at this late hour? 

11. No, for some one will be there to meet me. 

12. A week has passed since the doctor told his patient that he could have no meat. 

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Review. 

meat — meet Jwur — our week — weak rode — road 

no — kiiow hy — buy sum — some 

1. We saw two deer on the road last Saturday as we rode along. 

2. Some of our friends will meet us at the Cliff House Labor Day. 

3. "Meat is good for weak people," said Dr. Jones. 

4. "I know that sum of money will buy that piece of property," said Mr. Black. 

5. Did you know that our cousins have gone to Alameda to live? 

6. Last week May and Jane rode to the station to meet their cousin from New York 

City. : 

7. Last Decoration Day some boys and girls went on a picnic to the Cliff House. 

8. A few weeks ago we sent our box of Christmas presents to Boston. Massachusetts. 

9. There is much meat sent from Chicago, 111., to England every week. 
10. "I'm going to buy a piece of meat for my dog," said Miss Smith. 

To introduce then — than. 

Certain words are as often confused through incorrect pronunciation as 
through similarity in appearance. Such words are tlian and then^ our and 
are. If many mistakes occur, use these sentences for drill; if not, omit 
these lessons. 

Statement : Than is used when comparing. Then refers to time. 

1. He is taller than his brothei". 

2. He would rather go than stay. 

3. He would not do it then. 

4. The boy would rather study than stay after school. ^ 

5. Then he started for school. 

6. There was no time then to do it. 

7. The carpenters stopped their work rather than use poor lumber. 

8. I was larger than you then. 

9. The nest of the eagle is larger than that of the hawk. 

10. The sum she received was greater than that her brother received. 

11. If I were you I would not go then. 

12. I would rather walk than ride. 

13. Then you may go. 

14. I wish you had been with us then. 

15. The bay extends farther north than south. 

Our — are. 

Our is seldom incorrectly used for are, but the children often say and 
write, Here is are book. 

Put up on the board several sentences with our correctly used. Have the 
sentences read and our distinctly pronounced. Use this form: Whose 
books? Our books. Therefore, our is spelled o — w — r. 

1. Our books were lost. 

2. Where are our hats? 

3. We put our baskets upon the shelf. 

4. Our state is a very large one. 

5. Did you know that our school will close the fourth of June? 

6. Our lessons are very difBcult this year. 

7. Our school is on Buchanan street. 

8. We two girls will carry our lunch together. 

9. Are our parents invited, too? 

10. There are some new desks for our school. 

11. No, we do not know our lessons. 

12. We sailed our new boat for the first time to-day. 

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Fill in blanks: 

1. We came home then because school closed. 

2. flag has a star for every state. 

3. Did you see new hats? 

4. there many cherries on trees this year? 

5. There few good roads in county. 

For study and dictation : 

Once a wolf was walking along a road when he came to a forest. There he met two 
foxes. He tried to catch them, but succeeded in catching only one, as the other was 
too quick for him. The wolf said to the fox, "Get me something to eat." The fox said, 
"I know a place where I can get some ducks, but it is too far from here." "No, it is 
not too far," answered the wolf. "Take me to it." So they went to the barnyard. 

There the fox caught many ducks, but the hungry wolf wanted more. The fox tried 
again, but the ducks made too much noise and woke the farmer. He came out so quietly 
that the wolf and the fox did not hear him. Both were caught and kept prisoners to 
teach other animals not to steal ducks. 



There was once a poor woman who lived all alone in a hut with her two children. 
Their names were Snow White and Rose Red. They liked the flowers on two rose bushes 
that grew by the door. Rose Red liked to play by the brook. Snow White liked to help 
her mother keep house or read to her when she was not too busy. 

When the children went out together they walked hand-in-hand. Both loved to hear 
the birds sing and to see the green fields. They liked to run here and there picking 
flowers to carry home to their mother. 

Sometimes when they wandered too far away they would spend the night in the 
forest. One morning when they awoke, they saw a beautiful child sitting by their bed. 
She smiled at them and then disappeai-ed. The mother said that the child was their 
good angel watching there while they slept. 



Once upon a time there were two boys named John and Henry Stevens. They went 
to a country school where there were few pupils. The two boys lived too far from 
school to walk. Every morning John would saddle the two horses and they would ride 
to school. 

One day the teacher asked, for their library books. John replied, "I left two of my 
books at home. They were too heavy to carry." So they had no new books for two 
weeks. 

There were many tasks for the boys in summer. They went out into the fields with 
their sheep. There was fruit to be picked and prepared for market, too. There were the 
cows to be milked two times a day, and the cream to be sent to the creamery. Their time 
was filled every day. 



There was once a thirsty crow. He saw a pitcher of water on a table. There he 
flew, but the water was too low for him. He tried to think of something to do to reach 
the water. There were some pebbles lying on the ground near by. He carried them to 
the pitcher and dropped them in one by one. Soon the water reached the top and the 
thirsty crow drank it. 

The Ciecus. 

Mary and her mother went to see the circus. On reaching there, they went first to 
see the animals. They entered through a small tent and walked quickly through to a 
larger one. Here they saw two elephants which held up their trunks and took some 
peanuts from Mary. She fed the little elephants with peanuts, too. 

After their visit to the animal tent, Mary and her mother went into the large circus 
tent. There they saw a great many wonderful sights. There were two large rings 

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where the animals came to perform their tricks. There were trained dogs, pigs, and 
horses. Soon the two elephants came in. All the children clapped their hands when 
they saw them. 

While Mary was listening to the music, she saw two of her little friends with their, 
mother. They were too far away to speak, but they smiled when they saw Mary. 

When the circus was over, Mary went with her friends to dinner. Her mother walked 
with them. That night the children dreamed of dogs, and horses, and elephants, too. 



Review. 

This dictation contains capitals for proper names, titles and names of 
places, possessives and quotations. If the children have not had these topics, 
omit -until some future time. 

Mr. Green and Mr. Barnes had both graduated from the Military Academy at West 
Point. They were now officers in the United States Army. 

When war was declared with Spain the two officers were called to the captain's tent. 
"I'm in need of two men to carry messages through a dangerous country," said Captain 
Pierce. Both answered respectfully, "All right, captain, we are ready to go." 

This dictation contains capital letters for titles and proper adjectives, 
possessives, quotations and pairs of words as covered in the Primary Grades. 
If the children have not had these topics, omit until page 128 is reached. 

Once the Danes drove King Alfred from his kingdom. He lay hidden for a long time 
on a little island in a river. 

There were not many people on the island. All except the king and queen and one 
servant went out to fish. No one could get to this lonely place except by a boat. About 
noon a ragged beggar came to the king's door and asked for food. 

The king called the servant and asked, "How much food have we in the house?" The 
servant replied. "We have only one loaf and a little wine." Then the king gave thanks 
to God and said, "Give half of the loaf and half of the wine to this poor man." 

In the afternoon the fishermen came back. Their three boats were full of fish. 
They said, "We have caught more fish to-day than in all the other days we have been 
on the island." — Retcritten from Fifty Famous Stories ly Baldicin. 

This dictation contains capitals for proper names, names of places, and 
days of the week, possessives, dates, time of day, and quotations. If the 
children have not had these topics in the Primary Grades, omit until some 
future time. 

Ethel and Mary's father took them with him on a trip to the northern part of Africa. 
They left New York City Monday, March 3, 1909. at 7.30 p. m. From northern Africa 
they went to eastern Asia. While in India. Ethel wrote a letter to her mother saying, 
"I like the Orient very much." 

This dictation contains capitals for proper names, places, and events, 
possessives, quotations, and dates. If the children have not had these 
topics, omit until some future time. 

"Uncle Harry, haven't you a story for us?'' asked Frank one winter's evening. 
"About what?" asked Uncle Harry, as he poked the fire. 
"Anything you like." was the eager reply. 
"Would the Boston Tea Party do?" asked Uncle Harry. 
"Yes. yes," said both boys together. 

Uncle Harry then told the boys about the exciting times in Boston over the tea which 
England sent there in 1773. 

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CAPITALS. 

One of the hardest subjects for the children to master is that of capitaliza- 
tion. The fact is that in the last decade there has been a decided change 
in this matter. The present tendency is decidedly away from a free use of 
capital letters. When in doubt, use a small letter, is now a good rule to 
follow. 

The old rule given to children was to begin every proper noun with a 
capital letters, but there was no definite way of telling whether a noun was 
a proper one or not. 

Since in many cases there is no fixed rule for capitalization, it seems 
better to emphasize those definite cases in which there can be no doubt and 
leave the High Schools to determine what choice shall be made if authori- 
•ties differ. 

The words that shall be capitalized can not be lumped into one whole 
and called proper nouns. It is too general a classification for children of 
Grammar School age to grasp. Enough examples of each individual class 
that is in common use must be given to teach that class, then another may 
be taken. To illustrate: It is not enough to say capitalize proper nouns, 
then give one sentence under holidays, another under names of places, 
another under titles of compositions, etc., and then expect children to 
capitalize properly. Instead, enough names must be given of the most 
common holidays, sections of the country'-, days of the week, months of the 
year, world known events, nationalities, denominations, political parties, 
etc., to make the writing with a capital of that particular class of words a 
habit. 

It is not enough to teach that certain words have capitals. The fact must 
also be taught that certain words do not have capitals, such as summer, west, 
a direction, grammar, etc. 

In this Bulletin each class is given by itself, with a review of all that 
has gone before. 

The statement in every case is definite. Republican is the name of a 
political party. Therefore Republican begins with a capital. General is 
a title. Therefore General begins with a capital. 



I. 

Review the spelling of the names of the days of the week, months of the 
year, and holidays found on page 50 of the Bulletin. Have the children 
write these names in lists with capital letters. 

Review the sentences in the primary work, page 102. 

The new work added is to begin with a capital letter the shortened name 
of city, bay, park, beach, building, etc. Put on the board the following 
sentences : 

John lives in Oakland. He crosses the Bay every clay to the City, lauding at the 
Ferry. He takes the Ellis street car to the Ocean. This car passes the Park. 

In this paragraph San Francisco Bay is clearly intended and is usually 
so understood. Therefore, the shortened name Bay is begun with a capital 

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letter. It is just as clear that City stands for the city of San Francisco, 
Ocean for Pacific Ocean, and Park for Golden Gate Park. 

The names of the directions and seasons are very often erroneously begun 
with capitals. Use the language form, east means in an eastern direction. 
Therefore, east does not begin with a capital. Spring, summer, autumn, 
winter, fall, do not begin with capitals. 

Method. — The first lesson consists in selecting from the sentences the 
names of holidays, places, people, etc., and applying the language form. 
The knowledge of the fact is thus acquired. The remainder of the work is 
applying this fact. The sentences are put on the board with small letters. 
The children copy the sentences, putting in capital letters where necessary. 

1. School will begin Monday, August 2, 1909. 

2. The Sacramento River is the longest river in California. 

3. Mary went to Golden Gate Park Tuesday and to the Cliff House Wednesday. 

She likes the Park very much. 

4. The Pacific Ocean bounds the United States on the west. 

5. The children from the City were invited to Alameda Saturday to open a new 

playground for childi'en. 

6. This summer we shall spend our vacation in the City. We shall go to the Park 

Fourth of July, out to the Ocean one day, and perhaps take a launch to Mare 
Island another day. 

7. Does Washington's Birthday come during the winter? 

8. Spring, summer, autumn, and winter are the names of the seasons. 

9. Los Angeles County is in the southern part of California. It is noted for its mild 

climate and its production of fruit. Many tourists visit the county every year. 

Buildings : 

1. The Ferry Building is at the foot of Market street. 

2. In visiting New York City one should not fail to see the Flat-iron Building. 

3. The White House. Washington, D. C, is the home of the President of the United 

States. 

Countries — continents : 

1. A war for freedom was fought recently in Turkey. 

2. Rome, the capital of Italy, was the home of Julius C?esar. 

3. "I learned to-day," said John, "that the Rhine River is in Germany." 

4. Japan's capital is the city of Tokio. 

5. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are in Egypt. 

6. Australia belongs to Great Britain, the country which has so many colonies. 

7. Argentine Republic is in the southern part of South America. 

8. The lakes of Scotland are dear to all Highlanders. ^ 

9. The most beautiful building in India is the Taj Mahal. 

10. In the United States a man must be twenty-one years old to be able to vote. 

Cities : 

1. A large part of San Francisco was destroyed by earthquake. 

2. The city of Boston is dear to all Bostonians. 

3. Some of the people there were from Venice. 

4. On his way to Africa he stopped at Aden. 

5. There was a great disaster in Messina. 

6. Many art galleries are in Paris. 

7. Seattle is on the shore of Paget Sound. 

8. "I live forty-five miles from Los Angeles," said George. 

9. Washington is the capital of the United States. 

10. Stanford University is near Palo Alto. 

11. The central part of the LTnited States is a wheat-raising region. 

12. He rode east ten miles to reach the next town. 

13. My two uncles came to spend Thanksgiving with us. 

14. Did her new hat arrive in time for Easter Sunday?- 

15. In the spring the robins began to build their nests. 

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Names of people : 

1. Wm. H. Taft is the President of the United States. 

2. The people honor the memory of George Washington. 

3. In his last battle with the Indians, General Custer was killed. 

4. Two men by the name of Smith were present. 

5. Mrs. Brown asked, "Will you meet me, Miss Jones, after the reception?" 

6. George rode twenty-five miles along this country road. 

7. I know that George Smith answered, "No, I can not go." 

8. This lion was killed by Theodore Roosevelt in Africa. 

9. The salesman said, "You will find it hard to get a piece of that material here, 

Miss White." 

2. Capitals. Eeview. Paies of Words. 

1. Yesterday Alice was seen with Mrs. White in Oakland. 

2. King Edward of England gave Captain Jones a gold medal. 

3. Admission Day Uncle John is going to take Grace and me to the Cliff House. 

4. The Pilgrims thanked God for reaching America in safety. 

5. San Francisco is bounded on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the east by 

San Francisco Bay. 

6. The Mississippi River is the longest river in North America. 

7. The Pilgrims invited the Indians to their first Thanksgiving Day in America. 

8. Some of our pupils pass by the Mint on their way to school. 

9. In December two of the boys are going to the Santa Cruz Mountains for their 

Christmas vacation. 

10. Shall we meet at the Emporium and go straight to the Ferry? 

11. Our City will be gaily decorated for the great Portola Festival in October. 

12. Jack and Roy spent Washington's Birthday in Golden Gate Park and May Day 

at the Cliff House. 

13. His office is now in the Call Building, which is situated on the corner of Market 

and Third streets. 

14. The steel frame work of the City Hall is at last being torn down. 

15. He rode around the City Tuesday that he might see all of the new buildings. 

16. The Post Office and Mint belong to the United States. 

17. Mr. Smith took J.oe and Edna to Angel Island last Wednesday to visit their 

Aunt Clara. 

18. Would you like to send her a postal of the Mint, the Post Office, the City Hall, 

the Ferry, the Call, and some of our other large buildings, too? 

19. I know that the children enjoy Hallowe'en and Christmas Day more than some of 

the other holidays. 

20. In New York the Flat-iron Building is one of the buildings that we hear the most 

about. 

21. Last February while in England we saw King Edward at Windsor Castle. 

22. "Is that scene on exhibition in any building?" asked the stranger. 

28. Oakland is on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay. Many people cross the 
Bay by ferry every morning to work in the City. 

24. Golden Gate Park is one of the largest parks in the United States. Last May Day 

the children of the City held a fete in the Park. 

25. The ferry that carries people from Vallejo to the Navy Yard at Mare Island is 

very small in comparison with those that cross the Bay. 

26. "They expect to spend the summer in Los Angeles and the winter in the City," 

said Miss Green. 

27. "My sister Mary is visiting her Aunt Alice at 116 Waller street, San Francisco, 

California," said Gertrude. 

INTRODUCING POSSESSIVES. 

As an introduction to the writing of the possessive form of words, some 
little time should be devoted to the singular and plural form of nouns. 
Review first the topic as given for the Primary Grades list. Have the 
children write the singular form in one column, with the plural form 
opposite. The children have already learned the idea of singular and 

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plural. The drill should now be directed toward spelling. Use these words. 
See also Course of Study in Grammar, Bulletin No. 6, pp. 50-52. 

Sheep, turkey, piano, goose, potato, tomato, woman, city, wife, dwarf, 
deer, ox, loaf, wolf, box, man, tooth, foot, mouse, leaf, child, fish, baby, 
lady, fly, knife, calf, valley. 

Put on the board the following list of nouns. Over the list place the 
words means one. Tell the children that after each word we shall write the 
name of something that is owned. To illustrate : After boy write the word 
top. Then repeat &02/ /op. "Does that tell you that the top belongs to the 
boy? No, I must say hoy's topy It is easy to say, but we make mistakes in 
writing. Now watch me and listen. Boy means one and does not end in s. 
Therefore, we add an apostrophe and s to show possession." Go through 
four or five of the words in the list in the same way, then have the children 
give the statement, first orally, then in writing : 

Means one. Means more than one. 

boy's top boys' tops 

baby's cap babies' caps 

clog's meat dogs' meat 

cat's tail cats' tails 

girl's dress girls' dresses 

lady's hat ladies' hats 

horse's mane horses' manes 

cow's milk -- cows' milk 

frog's leg frogs' legs 

rat's nest rats' nest 

bee's stings he.QS stings 

If the children do this well and there is time, the word meaning more than 
one may be given and the fact developed that it sounds all right now to 
say boys' top, but that the apostrophe must be used in writing it. Boys 
means more than one and already ends in s. Therefore, an apostrophe 
only is added to show possession. 

Send the children to the board and dictate the phrases boy's top, baby's 
cap, etc., always telling whether one or more than one is intended. When 
the 'children can do this readily without thinking of the statement, develop 
the possessive singular and plural of man, woman, child, mouse, ox, deer. 
Then the following sentences may be used. Have the sentence read first, 
then the apostrophe accounted for according to the statement. Afterward 
erase the apostrophes and have the sentences rewritten with the apostrophes 
added. Correct the papers, indicating in the margin where there are errors. 
The children should then rewrite all sentences in which there are errors and 
give the statements. 

In case the children can not tell by the sentence whether the word means 
one or more than one, have the sentence written both ways and both state- 
ments given. 

1. The boy's hat was lost. 

2. Two boys went to John's house for dinner. 

3. The ladies' hats are in their rooms. 

4. The robins' songs filled the air. 

5. Give me James' hat. (Either James" or James's is permissible.) 

6. My dog's collar is too large. 

7. Did vou hear the girls' song? - ■ 

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8. The girls' sewing club will meet next week. 

9. Mary's sister spent two weeks here. 

10. The man's hat was lost Wednesda3^ 

11. We shall take two months' vacation this year. 

12. The mouse's nest was found here among some papers. 

13. The boy's hat fell into his neighboi-'s yard. 

14. How many day's work must he do to obtain money enough to buy the horse? 

15. Children's bones are not so easily broken as old people's bones. 

16. Men's and boys' shoes are sold here. 

17. We heard that there was to be a sale of ladies' and men's suits to-morrow at 

Brown's store. 

18. The chief's oldest son shot the deer. 

19. I hear that those two boys are asking if the children's books will be corrected soon. 

20. The birds' young ones had already left the nest. 

21. We rode for two days through the desert with the sun's rays shining directly 

upon us. 

22. Mary went with Lucy's sister to hear the girls sing their new songs. 

23. She was too late to meet the train that brought the president's party. 

24. Robins know when it is time to leave for their winter home. 

25. The boy's book is on the table. 

26. The ladies' hats are in the hall. 

27. Are those boys' coats for sale? 

28. Was the lady's watch lost? 

29. Here are the mice's nests. 

30. The man's new house is very large. 

31. Mary knew that her sister's work was wrong. 

32. It is too cold in my sister's house to be comfortable. 

33. I saw John's hat there yesterday. 

34. Did you see the dog watching the little kittens' food? 

35. The children's new shoes were bought at their father's store. 

36. Jane stood here to see the boys' game of ball. 

37. No, I do not wish to know how the king's son was slain. 

38. James' house is near here. 

39. The fairies' dance was a very pretty part of the play. 

40. Mother's beautiful dishes were broken. , 

41. The boys' shoes were dusty after their long walk. 



Show the children how to change the following phrases to the possessive 
form. These may then be changed and made into sentences for written 
work : 



work of the man 
books of the boys 
houses of the girls 
toys of the baby 
book belonging to John 
hat belonging to James 
song of a robin 
dresses of the ladies 
clothing of the men 
tails of mice 
marbles of the boy 



work of a day 

time of two weeks 

home of the bees 

meeting of the women 

food of deer 

ring of the girl 

the yoke of an ox 

head of a lion 

the crops of the farmers 

the tales of those fishermen 

the advice of their mothers 



Write in columns the possessive singular and plural of each of the follow- 
ing words. Write after each a word showing what is owned, as girl's book: 
girl, boy, Indian, bird, week, month, year, day, lady, thief, wolf, fox, calf, 
pony, negro, baby, hero, emperor, king, woman, buffalo, father, newsboy, 
scholar, man, postmaster, mistress, country, monkey, donkey, heir, crow, 
eagle. 



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3. POSSESSIVES AND EeVIEW. PaIRS OF WORDS. 

1. Men's actions show their characters more than words. 

2. The king's troops reached the gates of the city just as the bugle sounded. 

3. Cinderella's slipper would fit no one else's foot. 

4. "How much of the earth's surface is covered by water?" asked Will. 

5. The sun's hot rays have faded the flower's color. 

6. The Alps are Europe's most picturesque mountains. 

7. The Italian's love for art and m\isic is known to every one. 

8. Their mother's father came to California many years ago. 

9. His six months' vacation was spent in the White Mountains. . 

10. Charles' father sailed for the Philippine Islands last Wednesday. 

11. Peter H. Burnett, who was California's first Governor, was born in Tennessee. 

12. How many days did it take Xerxes' army to cross the bridge? 

13. The boys' football suits were bought in Chicago. 

14. The little dog was too tired to keep up with the horses' rapid gait. 

15. In Germany, the farmers' sons and daughters, too, work in the fields. 

16. Were the princess' rings found in the traveler's bag? 

17. The wolves' howls could be heard in the distance. 

18. The fishermen's sons mended their fathers' nets. 

19. That lady's sister spent her two days' vacation at our home. 

20. Betsy Ross' flag contained thirteen stripes and thirteen stars. 

21. Were the miners' cabins built in the same way as Abraham Lincoln's early home? 

22. We heard that there is to be a sale of ladies' suits at Brown's store. 

23. Those Indians' blankets were woven by their daughters. 

24. Will you pass the doctor's oflice on your way to Mrs. Reiss'? 

25. "Are you sure that this is Gladys' and no one else's book?" asked Mr. Andrews. 

26. The soldiers' feet were bruised and bleeding from their long march. 

27. The anarchists' plot was discovered before it could be carried out. 

28. What was Midas' wish? 

29. The negroes' banjos could be clearly heard from where we sat. 

30. "It is theirs, not mine," said the boy. 

31. As they lay there, the children's hearts stood still with fright. 

32. The Indian women's lives are hard ones, for they have to do all the hard work. 

33. The rivals' swords were carried to a park and a duel then took place. 

34. "When I get every one's attention, I shall continue the story," said the teacher. 

35. The fortune-tellers' booths were made very attractive so that every one would 

have his fortune told. 

36. Because the captain's orders had been disobeyed the sailors' punishment -was the 

greater. 

37. Cicero's orations are too difficult for children's lessons. 

38. The witch's cries rang through the village, but the people's ears were closed to 

her pleadings. 

39. Charles' sister is making a collection of birds' nests. 

40. Were the elephants' tusks polished and put on exhibition? 

41. Mary's sister became tired of sitting still, so she lay down and laid her head on 

Mary's lap. 

42. The lion's roar could be heard in every part of the circus. 

43. Father's coat is made from a bear's skin. 

44. His mother's opinion meant more to him than the boys' opinions. 

45. A few hours' walk brought us to the edge of the forest where the girls' fathers told 

us they would meet us. 

46. She would listen to neither her parents' nor her teacher's advice. 

47. After the day's hunt the deer's antlers were carried home with great rejoicing. 

48. Mrs. James' roses are much larger than Mrs. Jones'. 

49. It was Charles' not Emma's fault. 

50. My brother-in-law's sister spent several days with me. 

For study and dictation : 

The Burglars. 

One night two burglars crept into the king's palace. The king's soldiers were all 
asleep. Each was dreaming of a soldier's adventures.- The burglars had come to steal 
the three daughters' jewels. 

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At last a watchman's listening ear heard the bui-glars" noise. He crept into the 
youngest daughter's room and woke her. The soldiers' dreams were soon disturbed by 
the servants' and daughters' cries. Shots were heard and three of the soldiers lay dead. 
Thus these heroes' lives were given to save the king's daughters' jewels. 

Out for Some Fun. 

The morning was very pleasant. In a crowded car the. children were pushed from 
side to side, stepping on each other's toes and knocking off each other's hats. 

At Hillcrest they jumped from a car and started for Jones' poppy fields. Mary took 
James' hand and they chased Tom and Alice. Tom's dog ran barking after. 

They were watching the waters of the lake in the distance. Mary's foot slipped and 
she rolled down a bank. The dog's sharp bark made the other children turn. They 
started to the poor girl's rescue. In the excitement the dog jumped against Tom's leg 
and he rolled to Mary's help. 

When they reached the lake, their arms were full of California's most beautiful wild 
flowers. 

The boys' hats lay on the bank while the children ate their lunch. Tom threw Fido a 
chicken bone. The dog's tail wagged happily, sending Tom's and James' hats into the 
water. The dog swam after them. The children's cries encouraged him. Both boys' 
hats were soon in Fido's mouth. 

The children then started for home. They got to the steps of the car safely, but 
found that they had left two lunch-baskets on the shore of the lake. It took some time to 
get the baskets, but at last they started for home. 

When they arrived their faces showed that the day's pleasure had been good for all. 

A Holiday's Fun. 

It was in the early spring. School was dismissed for Washington's Birthday. John's 
friends were coming to spend the day with him. John was up early. The cow's morning 
allowance of hay was in her yard earlier than usual. A M^histle brought the surprised 
dogs to their morning's milk. When John's mother called, "Breakfast," he went in 
promptly. 

Nine o'clock seemed very far off, but finally the rumble of a wagon was heard, and 
the boys were soon off for their day's fun. 

They visited first the rabbits' home, and gave them the grass that John had saved for 
them. The dogs' kennels came next. Even the cows and horses were not forgotten. 
Then they played down by the creek until the mother's call announced lunch. 

After lunch they went to the orchard to look for birds' nests. They found several 
with eggs in them, but only one with birds. The dog's loud barking frightened the mother 
bird. She did not fly away, but stayed to protect her little ones. 

Four o'clock came all too soon. The boys' father had come back from town. He 
called them to come. Soon they were away and John was alone, wishing for another 
holiday. i 

QUOTATIONS. 

As has been said in the primary work, comparatively few occasions arise 
in ordinary business, or friendly correspondence, for the use of quotation 
marks. The present courses of study in the public schools contain so much 
material that requires their use that the time has not yet arrived when a 
Bulletin would be complete without a chapter on this subject. 

If the work in the primary grades has been carefully done and the 
required reviews given, very little time need be spent at this point. Divided 
quotations are given for the first time. 

Method. — Put on the board the following sentences : 
John said, "It is time to go home." John asked, "Have you ever been East?" 

Say to the children: "It is time to go home are the exact words of John. 
Therefore, quotation marks are placed before it and after Jiome. The exact 

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words of John are separated from the remainder of the sentence by a comma. 
Therefore, a comma is placed after said." 

"Have you ever been East are the exact words of John. Therefore, 
quotation marks are placed before have and after East. The exact words 
of John are separated from the remainder of the sentence by a comma. 
Therefore, a comma is placed after asked. Have you ever been East is a 
question. Therefore, a question mark is placed after East." 

Call the attention of the children to the fact that the quotation marks are 
not placed over the comma, and that the question mark is inside of the 
quotation marks. Have the marks neatly made. 

Use the sentences in the primary work, page 90, for review. When the 
children can give the language form orally, send them to the board. Dictate 
a sentence. Have one child give the form and as he does so put in the 
marks. Have the other children put in the marks at the same time. As 
soon as they understand where the marks go, drop the language form, and 
dictate sentences. Much drill must be given in order to acquire a habit. 
It is a great mistake to stop when the children know where to put the marks. 
Facts are easily forgotten, habits are more likely to stay. 

After this review is completed, the class is ready for divided quotations. 
Put on the board the following sentences with no marks: 

We ran, said John, and they ran after us. 
Do I look, asked he, as if I could do it? 
Give me, said the beggar, just a crust of bread. 
I have some, he said, but it is not enough. 

Ask the children to read the first sentence and tell you what John really 
said. Tell them that said John divides the quotation into two parts. 
Therefore, two sets of quotation marks and two sets of commas are needed. 
Use this language form: Said John divides the quotation into two parts. 
Therefore, two commas are required to separate the quotation from the rest 
of the sentence. We ran is the first part of the quotation. Therefore, quota- 
tion marks are placed before We and after ran. And they ran after tis is 
the second part of the quotation. Therefore, quotation marks are placed 
before and and after us. 

Use the language form only until the children have leai;ned where to put 
the marks. Then drop the language form and spend the time writing 
sentences and putting in the marks. „ 

The sentences may be written on the board with no marks, and the 
children asked to rewrite the sentences correctly. 

1. "I have come," said James, "for the Golden Fleece." 

2. "You will have trouble," replied the king, "in getting it." 

3. "The bell," she said, "will ring at twelve o'clock." 

4. "San Francisco Bay," answered John, "is the largest bay on the Pacific Coast." 

5. "We are going to Golden Gate Park," said the children, "to visit the Museum." 

6. "The Ferry Building," wrote John, "was the scene of a large gathering." 

7. "The .little birds," said the teacher, "will come back here in the spring." 

8. "We rode," replied the traveler, "from morning until night." 

9. "When we have finished our work," asked he, "may we run down the road?" 

10. "There are but two seasons in California," said Mary, ,"the wet and the dry." 

11. "Did you save me a piece of candy," asked the little girl, "to eat after dinner?" 

12. "Yes," replied her mother, "for you were very good to-day." 

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13. "Is it too warm," she asked, "to ride for an hour?" 

14. "Did you take the ladies' hats," she asked, "into the hall?" 

15. "Washington's Birthday," said he, "is a day of peace.," "Fourth of July," added 

Johnny, "is a day of noise." 

16. "Men's shoes," replied the man, "are sold on Twenty-first street." 

17. "Ask the girl's brother," demanded John, "if he did it." 

IS. "Half the Mayflower's passengers lay dead," said the teacher, "before springtime." 

19. "Did you take my ball?" asked Tom's brother. 

20. "No, I must go to school to-day," said Henry. 

21. "Are you going to hear the music in Lincoln Park?" asked the girl's mother. 

22. "You should know your lesson well to-day," said the teacher. 

23. "Mary has gone down Market street to the Ferry," replied May. 

24. "Are you going to grandmother's house for your Thanksgiving dinner?" he asked. 

25. "Have you written to the City yet?" she asked. 

26. "Did they spare the king's life?" asked the little girl. 

27. "Do you make men's shoes stronger than ladies' shoes?" we asked. 

28. "The children's books are on their teacher's desk," said the janitor. 

29. "A donkey's ears are longer than a horse's ears," said the farmer boy. 

30. "Shall I address it to Los Angeles, California?" asked John. 

31. He said, "The boy's hat flew over the fence into his neighbor's yard." 

32. The teacher announced to her class, "School will close June 12 at three o'clock." 

33. Our father wrote, "I shall leave Berkeley, Cal., January 3, 1909." 

34. The boy's brother said, "The dog was so puzzled that he didn't know which way 

to go." 

35. "Will you bring me somebody else's book?" asked the teacher. 

36. "We write twenty-five words every day," said Harry. 

37. "This can not be grown in any other county in California," said he. 

38. "Our ferryboats are well built," said he. 

39. He said to us, "Do not spend your money except to buy something useful." 

40. "If their books are not bought to-day it will be too late," she said. 

41. The man asked, "Shall I find the two boys there?" 

42. "Are you going, too?'' she added. 

43. "We passed by the old mill every day," he said. 

44. She asked, "Are those our hats?" 

45. "Do not tie the cord so loosely," the shopper requested. 

Exercises : 

Write a quotation that is a question. 

Write a quotation containing a date. 

Write a quotation containing the name of a city and state. ' 

Write a quotation containing a contraction. 

Write a quotation containing a word showing possession. 

Write a divided quotation. 

4. Quotations and Review. 

1. "Would you like to go there with John to pick some berries?" asked Mrs. Ames. 
,2. "Did the knights love their king as we love our dear mother?" asked the two 
children. 

3. He asked, "Why are you so sad?" 

4. The cry ran through the ranks, "Are our men never to move forward?" 

5. "It is not too late," he said, "to begin to do better." 

6. "And will you stay here," was the inquiry, "forever and ever?" 

7. "Yes, my dear children," said Pandora. 

8. "You are a rich man, friend Midas," said the stranger. 

9. "No," answered Midas, "not yet." 

10. "Now, I hope," said Charles, "that we shall hear of their doing great things.'' 

11. Tom asked, "Would you like to know where to buy some, too?" 

12. "There are two books that I should like you to read by next week," said the 

teacher. 

13. "His father," said Miss Smith, "is coming here to hear him sing." 

14. "They were all ready to leave here last week, but John became too weak to travel 

over a rough road," said Doctor White. 

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15. Charles asked, "Would you like to go there, too?" 

16. "There are two books that I should like to read," said the teacher. 

17. "Decoration Day the veterans and soldiers, too, gathered at the statue of Wash- 

ington to pay their respects," said Mr. Ward. 

18. "Are there two here," he asked, "who will go to town with us?" 

19. "Are you the lawyer's assistant?" asked the young man. 

20. "No, I do not know to whom it belongs," answered Miss Brooks. 

21. A quiet voice asked, "Do you know that you are now on the road that leads 

directly into the enemy's camp?" 

22. "Can you guess," asked the child, "where we' are going for our week's vacation?" 

23. "It is not theirs," said she, "so you may have it." 

24. "What do you suppose we shall find?" we asked Captain Evans. 

25. "What was Midas' wish, mother?" asked the little fellow. 

SPECIAL VERBS. 

For teaching the correct use of certain verbs — lie, lay, sit, set, rise, raise — 
the daily drills will be found most effective. However, the following 
exercises are added, hoping that they may make the daily drills more 
intelligible, and also give more practice. 

Take a book. Lay it down on the desk, and say : " I laid the book on the 
desk." Pick it up and say, "The book lay on the desk." Have a child 
come to the desk. Say to him, "Lay the book on the desk. Now tell me 
what you did. ' ' Get as answers : I laid the book on the desk. The book is 
lying on the desk. The book lies on the desk. Ask, "Where was the book?" 
Have them answer in two ways: The book lay on the desk, The book was 
lying on the desk. 

When the children have learned this so they can ask one another the 
questions as well as answer them, teach in the same way the answers to the 
questions, Where has the book been lying ? Where has the book lain ? 

Use for concert drill: 

The book lies on the table. The book will be lying' on the table. 

The book lay on the table. The book has been lying on the table. 

The book will lie on the table. I laid the book on the table. 

The book has lain on the table. I will lay the book on the table. 

The book is lying on the table. I have laid the book on the table. 
The book was lying on the table. 

Ask the following questions : 

Where does the book lie? Where has the book been lying? 

Where did the book lie? Where did you lay the book? 

Where will the book lie? Where will you lay the book? 

Where has the book lain? Where have you laid the book? 

Where is the book lying? Who laid the book on the table? 

Where was the book lying? Who will lay the book on the table? 

Where will the book be lying? Who has laid the book on the table? 

Teach the children to ask these questions. Have the questions copied and 
answered orally and in writing until all are letter perfect. 

Have these questions answered, using some form of lie or lay : 

Where did the boy put his coat? What have you done with your pictures? 

Where is your mother? Where are the boys now? 

What did you do with the paper? Where did your mother put the baby? 

Where has this book been for so long? Where is the baby now? 

What will you do with your new dress? How long has she been there? 

Who put the pencils away? What do you say to your dog? 

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Fill in the blanks : 

1. I usually on my side at night. 

2. Mary has the books where I told her to them. 

3. The baby's doll is in the grass. 

4. Why have you here so long? 

5. He left the books on the floor. 

6. The master told the dog to — down. 

7. The boy said to his dog, " down, Rover." 

8. Where have you your book? 

9. The girl always her clothes carefully away. 

10. The shower has the dust. 

11. James' book is where he was reading. 

12. The girl answered, "Mother has just down to rest." 

13. She asked, "Where have you been so long?" 

14. Has John his book away? 

15. Will it be there when I return? 

16. "Have you that coat away?" asked Mrs. Jones. 

17. Mrs. Smith has there ill for many years. 

18. Has John down to rest? 

19. Has John it down? 

20. Molly Cottontail told her baby rabbit to — low. 

21. My furs have been ■ away since February. 

22. They left their toys on the floor. 

23. The ferryboat has been up at the Oakland Mole for repairs. 

24. the book upon the table. 

25. I must have the pencil here. 

26. She started to the book on the desk. 

27. John his coat upon the grass. 

28. While the book upon the desk the boy spoke aloud. 

29. Have you my coat away? 

30. May has not the book where I told her to it. 

31. Must I : — • down and keep quiet? 

32. The master the bone upon the bench while the dog was upon the 

porch. 

33. The child down after her dolls away. 

34. I ■ the box on the chair, but it is now on the floor. 

35. The man the box on the table where the boy had the ruler. 

36. Where will you your clothes and where will you down to-night? 

37. We on the grass all the afternoon. 

38. The dogs — on the porch since noon. 

39. We in bed until seven o'clock. 

40. I shall have down before you return. 

41. Last night I down to rest. 

Have the children make sentences using had lain, have had laid, lying, 
lay, is laying, lie, lies, has laid. 

sit set 

Not so much drill is required upon these words, for mistakes occur less 
frequently. 

Use the same device as in teaching lie and lay, except that a cup or vase 
should be substituted for a book. Use the questions, Where did you set 
the cup? Where is the cup sitting? Who set it there? Where was the 
cup? (two answers.) How long has it been setting there? 
Give directions to the children, such as : 

Set the cup on the table. Sit with Flora. 

Set the vase on the shelf. Sit near the window. 

Set the pitcher by the book. , 

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Have the children tell what they did. 

Use for concert drill, the teacher repeating first, the children after her: 

I sit still in school. Did you sit still? 

I sat still in school. Where did you sit? 

I will sit still in school. Where have you sat? 

I have sat still in school. Will you set the package down? 

I set the cup down. Have you set the package down? 

I will set the cup down. Set the package down. 

I have set the cup down. Sit down. 

Will you sit still? 

Answer the following questions, using some form of sit or set : 

1. In which row do you sit? 

2. Near whom do you sit? ^ 

3. In which row did you sit last year? 

4. By whom do you sit at the table? 

5. Have you always sat there? 

6. Do you ever set the table? 

7. How long have you done it? 

8. What does a hen do? 

9. What kind of a hen should she be called? (A sitting hen.) 

10. Where does the sun rise? Where does it set? (This is an exception and must 

be learned.) 

11. What have you done with your doll? 

12. Does she sit up nicely? 

Fill in the blanks : 

1. Last week John took cold from on the grass. 

2. Mary, you are on my dress. 

3. the box where I it yesterday. 

4. Mother has not down to rest all day. 

5. ■ down to rest. 

6. Let the boy here until he can play quietly. 

7. John has there two hours. 

8. May I by you? 

9. While John was by the window the fire engine passed by. 

10. Shall I the plates on the table? 

11. Have you the hen? 

12. The hen will hatch the eggs next week. 

13. Napoleon wished to upon the throne of France. 

14. Lincoln was in his box at Ford's Theater when he was assassinated. 

15. Did they the crown upon the king's head? 

16. They the machinery in motion exactly on time. 

17. Come in, and — ■ down. 

18. "Who has been in my chair?" asked the mother bear. 

19. As he down at the table they ■ the pudding before him. 

20. Will you by me and read? 

rise raise 

Give such commands as, Raise the window, raise the top of the box, raise 

the cover of your book, this side of the table, the window shade, etc. Have 

the statements given : I raised the window, I raised this side of the table, etc. 

Have some one rise from his seat, and get the statement, I rose from my 

seat, I rose from the bench, I rose from the chair, etc. 

Concert drills : 

I raised the window. I have risen from my seat. 

I will raise the window. Will you raise the window? 

I have raised the window. Have you raised the window? 

I rose from my seat. Will you rise from your seat? 

I will rise from my seat. Have you risen from your seat? 

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Questions to be answered : 

3. Did you raise the window? 

2. Does the window rise easily? 

3. When did the balloon rise? 

4. What rises every day? 

5. When do you rise in the morning? 

0. How high did the tide rise? 

7. Has the river risen so high before? 

8. How high do you think it will rise? 

9. Has the cover to the trunk ever been raised? 

10. When will he raise his house another story? 

11. Tell me what time you rise in the morning. 

12. Tell me what time the sun rises? 

13. Tell me how many flowers he has raised this year. 

14. What should you do when called upon to recite? 

15. What should you do when you are introduced to elderly people? 

Fill in the blanks: 

1. Wheat and barley are in the San Joaquin Valley. 

2. Where did you those flowers? 

3. He has early every morning since you spoke to him. 

4. Did he the window? 

5. Will he wheat next year? 

6. He was in Orange County. 

7. The sun over Mount Wilson. 

8. The man has not from his bed since the accident. 

9. Will he the window shade just an inch? 

10. He has from office boy to manager by diligent work. 

11. The boy's seat must be three inches. 

12. The car was from the track before the man was rescued. 

13. The water is '■ — from the well by a windmill. 

14. Water ■ • to the top of the ground during the rainy season. 

15. Have you the money for the new church? 

Review. 

Answer the following questions : 

1. Where is the pencil lying? 

2. Where is the blotter lying? 

3. Where is the pen lying? 

4. Where does your pencil usually lie? 

5. Where does your blotter usually lie? 

6. Where does your pen usually lie? 

7. Where did your pencil lie yesterday? 

8. Where did your blotter lie yesterday? 

9. Where did your pen lie yesterday? 

10. Where has your pencil lain all day? 

11. Where has your blotter lain all day? 

12. Where has your pen lain all day? 

1. Tell in two ways, using some form of the word lie, where your pencil is. 

2. Tell in two ways where it was. 

3. Tell in two ways where it has been. 

lie lay 

Fill in the blanks. 

1. He unconscious for two hours in James' room. 

2. " still and sleep if you can," said the kind woman. 

3. Robert Bruce in the peasant's hut unable to aid in Scotland's cause. 

4. Many fallen knights now about their king. 

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• 5. The roots of these flowers are — : deep down in the earth. 

6. This skull has in the earth for twenty years. 

7. The Romans used to down to eat. 

8. "The ship at anchor, where it has for a week," said the captain. 

9. The children the wreath upon the soldier's grave. 

10. The little child had quiet all day. 

11. "Will you not go and down?" asked Mary. 

12. The rain has the dust. 

13. He was shown the place where the mummy . 

14. He may have the book upon the couch where Fred is now. 

15. Henry, where did you your book? 

16. I my pencil beside those on the table. 

17. That coat has on that bench for two weeks. 

18. He always his books just where he shouldn't them. 

19. Mary has not the paper where I told her to it. 

20. Do you know where they have — their books? 

21. The ship now at anchor where it has for two years. 

22. "Where have you the books that were on Gladys' desk?" asked 

Miss Jones. 

23. After he had there a few moments John's faithful dog at his side, 

his head upon John's hand. 

24. He seemed to say, "You have there long enough." 

25. "That steamer now in the stream leaves port the third of xlugust," said 

the captain. 

26. When the king — • his weary head upon his pillow he could not help but think 

of Shakespeare's remark concerning crowns and heads. 

27. "I am tired of seeing that paper on the floor," said the teacher, "for it 

has there since morning." 

28. "He down to rest an hour ago and he is still there," said Charles' 

mother. 

29. The children their flowers upon the graves of the soldiers who have 

at rest since the Civil War. 

30. Inmates are not allowed to in bed after 6 o'clock. 

31. "That piece of silk I on the table," said Ida, "came from China." 

32. The scythe has in the rain so long that it is very rusty. 

33. Coming from Florida, I was surprised to find the snow still — on the ground. 

sit set 

34. "Come in," said Mrs. Gray, "and s down." 

35. I have been by the window so that I would not miss you. 

36. "Who s in this seat last term?" asked Roy's teacher. 

37. "Who has been s in my chair?" asked the big bear. 

38. "Who s- in my chair and broke it down?" asked the baby bear. 

39. After Mary had s the bread by the stove to r she 1 down 

to rest. 

40. The balloon had before we arrived there. 

41. They had 1 — his body in a tomb, but it was now found 1 in Egypt's 

hot sands. 

42. I have s here waiting for you since two o'clock. 

43. "Will you s a price on that chair?" asked the auctioneer. 

44. She had r long before the sun r . 

45. "The river has r four feet during the night," said the farmer's son. 

46. When the Nile River r , there is great rejoicing throughout Egypt. 

47. The eagle r the child into the air, but as he was r — the child fell. 

48. The s hen should be taken from her nest and fed. 

49. I am not sure where she s the vase. 

50. The hunters s — ■ their traps and then 1 in wait to catch the animal. 

Review. 

The trees are where they fell. 

They let the gun where the man fell. 

The man suddenly ■ to his feet and looked about. 

The shelf doesn't level. 

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You have me a hard task. 

Have they their wet wraps on the table? 

Did you notice how the traps were — ? 

How many hours we had there, I don't remember. 

The rules that we must follow are forth by the speaker.' 

COMMAS IN A SERIES AND IN APPOSITION. 

Statement. — Apples, pears, and peaches are three words in a series. 
Therefore, a comma should be placed after every one except the last. 
Justify punctuation, then erase commas and have the sentences copied and 
punctuated. 

1. Apples, pears, and peaches grow in California. 

2. They hung blue, green, and red flags for decorations. 

3. Near here are a grocery store, a dry-goods store, and a candy store. 

4. As a friend, he was faithful, sincere, and trustworthy. 

5. He wished for his lunch bread and butter, strawberries and cream, and coffee 

and cake. 

6. There were soldiers, sailors, and citizens seated at the banquet. 

7. He visited Albany, Boston, and Chicago. 

S. Fishing, hunting, and basket-making are industries carried on by the Indians. 

9. She asked, "Are you fond of boating, tramping, or hunting?" 

10. The teacher sent Mary's brother, John's sister, and James' cousin on the errand. 

11. We study grammar, spelling, and arithmetic. 

12. It is valuable to the farmer, to the manufacturer, and to the builder. 

13. The trees lay where they had fallen, the horses stood where they had been fed, 

and the hay stood in shocks where it had been piled. 

14. He set down cups, saucers, and plates in confusion on the table. 

15. The Holy Lands have raised grain, figs, and olives. 

5. Commas in Series. — Review Pairs of Words, Capitals, Possessives, 
Quotations. 

1. "Our trip will include Paris, Berlin, and London," said Mrs. Harris' daughter. 

2. "Last night at the concert," said Myrtle, "we heard three Italians, two Russians, 

and two Filipinos sing." 

3. The French made many explorations around Lake Champlain, the St. Lawrence 

River, and the Mississippi River. 

4. "Do you not think Macbeth, Hamlet, and King Lear are some of Shakespeare's 

most interesting characters?" asked Doctor Adams. 

5. Silas' brother went there in the morning, at noon, and again at night, but no one 

answered the bell. 

6. "Cora, Marian, and Clifford," said Mrs. Hale, "are now on their way to visit the 

Cliff House with their Uncle Ned." 

7. "That river," said the trader, "was blocked with ice during December, January, 

and February." 

8. The tourists' trunks were sent to Naples, Venice, and then to Rome before they 

reached their owners. 

9. "Do you not know that some of the very best oranges, peaches, apples, and prunes 

are grown in California's fertile valleys?" asked the teacher. 

10. That boy by the window has been secretary, treasure!*, and president of our society. 

11. "Really," said the mother, "they ought not spend their money so foolishly, for 

they need too many pens, pencils, and tablets." 

12. Whether rowing a boat, playing football, baseball, or tennis Francis' brother is 

always first. 
18. The gardener asked, "Shall I plant roses, carnations, or violets here?" 

14. "His mother," said he, "held him at arms' length and looked closely at his eyes, 

hair, and features before she knew him." 

15. Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, and Christmas are three holidays that children 

like best. 

16. The thieves' plunder, consisting of furs, jewelry, silver, and fine ornaments, was 

found by Captain Smith in the ship's lockers. 

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Commas in Apposition : 

Have on the board about four of the sentences for this group. Call on a 
child to read the first sentence. Make the statement : the gardener for 
Golden Gate Park follows the word John explaining who John is. There- 
fore, the words the gardener, etc., are set off by commas. Show them that 
to "set off" two commas are required. Use the remainder of the sentences 
in the same way. Do not use the term, ' ' in apposition. ' ' 

1. John, the gardener for Golden Gate Park, died yesterday. 

2. The rifle belongs to my friend, the hunter. 

3. Shakespeare, the Bard of Avon, was born in 1564. 

4. Longfellow, the people's poet, was born in 1807. 

5. He shot the enemy with his father's gun, a large weapon. 

6. The eagle, the largest of birds, is the sign of American liberty. 

7. The Bible, the sacred book of Christians, is read by millions of people. 

Call attention to these sentences. Notice that steamboat comes before the 
name of the vessel, that neither capital letter nor commas are necessary. 
The children must simply learn to write these sentences through drill. The 
explanation usually given that the connection is too close to require commas 
means so little to children that it is not worth while to give it. 

1. The steamboat Jennie came into harbor yesterday. 

2. My sister Elizabeth is in Los Angeles. 

3. John's dog Nero rescued the drowning man. 

4. The battleship Oregon was built in San Francisco. 

5. She tried to induce her brother Tom to take her to Golden Gate Park. 

6. The poet Longfellow wrote the Children's Hour. 

7. His son John is now the mayor of a large city. 

8. Mr. Brown, a citizen of the United States, educated his son Tom in Oxford, 

England. 

9. The tugboat Slocum went down the bay to meet the visitors. 
10. The launch Bessie came to the aid of the ferryboat Berkeley. 



This dictation contains capitals for proper names, commas for words 
of a series, name of a city followed by the name of a state, abbreviations, 
contractions, time of day, possessives and quotations. If the children have 
not had all these subjects, omit until some future time. 

He was tired of the city. The rush of people at their work disturbed him by day. 
The noise of the cars kept him awake at night. "Let's go to the country, my son," he 
said one night. "We'll see about it to-morrow." Rob was delighted. He had often 
longed to live in the country. Now his opportunity had come. His dreams that night 
were of green grass, beautiful trees, and rocky streams. 

The next day Mr. Smith made arrangements to exchange houses with a Mr. Brown 
of Summerville, California, for six months. By ten o'clock everything was packed. Eight 
o'clock the following day found them at the station. 

The three days' journey to Summerville was very pleasant. They found the house 
and grounds entirely satisfactory. It did not take long to put up swings and hammocks. 
Rob began immediately to explore the country. He soon found where there were the 
most birds' nests, the largest trout, and the prettiest flowers. Rob's father improved daily. 

When it was* time to go back to their city home, the whole family were so fond of 
the country that they wrote to the owner asking to buy the place. He was as glad to 
sell as Mr. Smith was to buy. Noaa' Rob goes to the nearby school. He is as happy a 
boy as can be found any place. 



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REVIEW OF PRIMARY TEXT. 

How to write the name of a city followed by the name of a state; how 
to write dates, numbers, contractions, and abbreviations. 

Some drill has already been given upon these topics, therefore the sen- 
tences that follow will be in the nature of a review. 

Make the statement of the facts very simple. California is the name of 
a state following the name of a city. Therefore, California is set off by 
commas. Call attention to the fact that under these circumstances Cali- 
fornia may be abbreviated. When it is abbreviated a period and a comma 
follow. Teach them to use as few abbreviations as possible, and not to 
abbreviate a word at the end of a sentence. Tell the children that figures 
in a composition do not look well, unless the composition is one where 
statistics are being given. There are some numbers, though, that are nearly 
always given in figures — dates and numbers that require more than two or 
three words to write out. A number that isn't an exact one, as about four 
thousand five hundred is always written in words and any number at the 
beginning of a sentence is written in words. In a business letter many 
figures are allowed that would not be in friendly correspondence. 

A simple statement for the fact about numbers is: But two words are 
required to write two thousand. Therefore, words are used. 

Contractions are most easily taught in a list as a spelling lesson. When 

the children can write the list perfectly, have them supply the apostrophe 

in the contractions. The following list contains the contractions in common 

use. See also pages 32 and 53. 

can't we'll don't hasn't 

isn't you're I'd hadn't 

'tis let's I'll 

there's doesn't I'm 

1. Congress will always meet in Washington, D. C, every two years. 

2. He asked, "Was he sent to Louisville, Ky., to look for employment?" 

3. Some people go to Saratoga, N. Y., to spend the summer. 

4. They said, "Here are the goods that should be sent to Cleveland, Ohio, next week." 

5. He used to live in Charleston, South Carolina. 

6. "This road will lead too far away from our camp," said they. 

7. He was too weak to be moved even two miles. 

8. I have heard that she doesn't sing well. 

9. About fifty came to the party. 

10. We shall go on our picnic Saturday, January 24, 1909. 

11. He rode 6,910 miles on the train. 

12. They will reach Carson City, Nevada, too late for the stage. 

13. Why doesn't he go Monday, May 6, 1909? 

14. I don't want to go because she doesn't want to. 

15. There are many good stores in San Jose, California. 

16. They came to San Francisco October 1, 1849. 

17. Mischief doesn't ever bring reward to any one. 

18. "Mary, John, Alice, and I visited Chicago, 111., October 18, 1902," said Fred's sister. 

19. On Decoration Day the veterans and the soldiers, too, gathered at the statue to pay 
their respects. 

20. "I shall leave Oakland, Cal., on the 6.20 p. m. train Friday, September 10," said 
Mrs. Brown. 

21. They took their sister to the park, too. 

22. I went to town to buy a hat. 

23. One of the largest gold mines is located in Lead, South Dakota. 

24. If he had gone to St. Paul, Minn., he would have obtained work. 

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25. I"m too tired to work and shall lie down for a while. 

26. Mrs. Clark said, "John's birthday will come on the fourth of October." 

27. He wanted to buy a new grate for their house. 

28. We don't lay the books on the floor. 

29. She is going to Los Angeles, Cal., to visit her sister. 

30. Mary and Jack's mother is here to hear the song. 

31. "When in Cleveland, Ohio, I received a letter frdfii James' mother," said Mrs. Jones. 

32. When I counted up my rabbits to-day I found nine bf&ck ones, three white ones, 
and four spotted ones. 

33. John collected $5.10, Fred $4.25, and Tom $3.05 for the baseball team. 

34. Our room has 45 desks, 10 of which are large sized, 10 medium sized, and 25 small. 
(These numbers may be written with words.) 

35. The returns showed twenty-one killed, forty-four wounded, and thirty-nine missing. 

36. I bought sugar to-day at 4% cents per pound. 

37. "While in Washingon, D. C, did he see President Taft?" asked Doctor Lee. 

38. St. Louis, Mo., Portland, Ore., and San Francisco, Cal., are a few of the most 
prominent western cities. 

39. "Where is the young lady who was with us last spring in New Orleans, Louisiana?" 
asked they. 

40. "We visited one of the largest meat-packing houses in the world while in Chicago, 
Illinois," said Mr. Stone. 

41. "He left here on the two o'clock train for Memphis, Tennessee," said Fred, "to 
deliver a talk at the State University." 

42. "Is your home in Jamestown, Virginia?" asked Tom. 

43. "We arrived at Boston July 1st," said Mary, "and on the third of July at two 
o'clock left for New York." 

44. "The ice won't melt before April 15th," answered the sailor. 

45. "We're going to New York the seventh of January," said Ralph, "and expect to 
return June 18th." , 

46. They will cross the Bay in time to catch the train that leaves at 5.30 in the evening. 

47. "We'll arrive there almost too early for the spring season if we leave February 
4th," said Douglas' mother. 

48. It was Wednesday,. June 6, 1905, when Uncle Joe, Aunt Emma', and the two 
children returned from Europe. 

49. "Yes," I said, "you left February 21st, the day before Washington's Birthday." 

50. "Monday, March 5th, our class went to the City, took the car at the Ferry, rode to 
the Park, and from there walked to the Beach," said Jean. 

51. "To-day," said the teacher, "is June 11, 1909." 

52. "Are you going to leave for China on the 4.30 p. m. boat the 2d?" asked Mr. Clark. 

53. Their regular monthly meeting will be held Friday evening, November 15th. 

54. "That piece of paper," said the officer, "has three dates written clearly upon it, 
February 5th, April 3d, and September 24th." 

55. "We shall arrive in St. Petersburg, Russia," said Mr. White, "the eighteenth of 
May at about 7.30 a. m." 

56. "They'll cross the Bay with her and see her safely home, if she'll stay," said the 
children's mother. 

57. "Let's go," said Emmet, "to see if he'll go to Seattle, Wash., with us and do what 
we've planned." 

58. "You've had a good time, haven't you?" asked Mrs. Scott. 

59. "I've eaten four biscuits, two oranges, and a piece of cake, too, but it doesn't seem 
to satisfy me," said Gladys' sister. 

60. In some parts of the world the trees" branches are covered with snow, while in Los 
Angeles, Cal., the flowers are most beautiful. 

61. "I'll not be ready to go to the City before evening," said Henry, "so don't wait 
for me." 

62. "Then I'll return before you're ready to leave," said his brother. 

63. "They're not going to have the picnic until the Fourth of July," said Miss Brown. 

64. 'Tis true that she's never been there since, and I'm glad that she hasn't. 

65. There's to be a teachers' meeting there next Friday afternoon, March 30th, at three 
o'clock. 

66. "Aren't you going to tell us since we've waited so long?" asked she. 

67. "Isn't he the writer you've told me about so often," asked Grace, "the one whose 
story we're reading now?" 

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68. He sailed for Liverpool, England, last Monday with Mr. and Mrs. Simpson. 

69. Pizarro, the conqueror of Peru, was a Spaniard. 

70. "He was born in Santa Barbara, California, January 3, 1905," said Miss Jackson. 

71. My father's name is John Winthrop, Jr. 

72. He went to the City June 3, 1906, and returned to Cleveland, Ohio, the following 
February. 

73. Mrs. Betsy Ross made our first flag at her home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

74. "Haven't you," asked Fred, "told James' pai-ents of his accident?" 

75. "He hasn't spoken too loudly for many days," said the teacher. 

Numbers and Review. 

1. "Nine hundred loaves of bread are made every day on board the Charleston." 

said the captain. 

2. "It's their intention," said he, "to buy a six thousand dollar automobile for their 

son." 

3. "About three hundred fifty people have arrived already," said Ruth. 

4. Didn't their father come to California fifty-five years ago? 

5. The diameter of the earth at the Equator measures 7,925.6 miles. 

6. "We've been away since April 15th, just sixteen days," said Mabel, "and we're 

glad to get home again." 

7. There were 1,265 people on board the ship at the time of the wreck and only 235 

escaped drowning. 

8. On Christmas night Washington's army of about two thousand five hundred men 

crossed the Delaware River, marched nine miles through the blinding snow, and 
captured one thousand prisoners at Trenton, New Jersey. 

9. "We'll all meet on the corner of Twenty-second and Mission streets at nine o'clock 

Thursday morning," said Clara. 

10. "Seventeen acres of this land," said Harold, "have been sold at $325 per acre." 

11. "Have you read the directions on pages 185, 201, and 250?" asked Charles' teacher. 

12. At the close of the seventeenth century, the Dutch were the rulers of Europe. 

13. "Yes, Mr. Burns," he said, "these two books are yours." 

14. The new safety reservoir now being built in the City at the corner of Waller and 

Webster streets will contain eighty thousand gallons of water. 

15. It was not known by many in 1492 that the earth's surface is round. 

16. "I know," said John, "that it is about fifty miles from San Francisco to San Jose." 

17. "In 1900 the population of New York was 3,437,202," said Mr. Turner. 

18. The Isthmus of Suez is a narrow neck of land about seventy-two miles across, 

connecting Africa with Asia and separating the Mediterranean and Red seas. 

19. Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world, is 29,000 feet in height. 

20. About one hundred fifty-eight thousand square miles is the area of our state. 

21. "There were twenty-five men placed there to guard the prisoners and keep peace," 

stated the guide. 

22. The factory now employs one hundred seventy-five men to operate this machine. 

23. Fifty-nine years ago California was made a state. 

24. "We are to have eight weeks' vacation this summer," said the children. 

25. There are one hundred forty-four sheets of paper in one quire. 

This dictation contains possessives, pairs of words, and commas between 
words in a series. If the children have not had these topics, omit until 
some future time. 

Dictation : 

About two months ago, tAvo boys decided to go to their uncle's farm for a few days' 
vacation. They loved to hear their parents talk about the old farm house. Their mother 
was born there, and she had often played by the river which ran past the garden. 

When the boys told the plan to their mother she was pleased. She began at once to 
tell them of the places where they would have the best time. 

There were swings, boats, and ponies. Here and there were splendid places for picnics. 
Down by the old well, too. was a fine place to play. 

After spending many days preparing for their journey, the two boys saw their trunks 
taken to the station. Here a surprise awaited them. A number of their friends were 
there to see them off. Good-byes were soon said, and the train pulled out with two happy 
boys. 

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When I was a boy I lived far out in tlie West. Illinois was the far West then. Few 
people lived there, and Indians roamed the forests. We didn't have large schools as you 
children have. Our school was a rough log cabin. I had to ride two miles, and some 
children had to come even a greater distance. We had school for only a few months in 
summer, for when winter came it was too stormy to go out. 

There was always much work to be done on our farm, and when I was not at school 
I helped father. Often we would not finish Until late at night. Water from the well had 
to be brought in, the cows had to be milked, the chickens fed, the plowing done, and many 
other things around the farm. The children of those days had to work very hard. Then 
he closed his eyes and added, "Some time I will tell you more about those days. I am 
too tired now." 

This dictation contains capitals for proper names, commas for the name 
of a city followed by the name of a state, quotations, and pairs of words. 
If the children have not had these topics, omit until some future time. 

The Quaker's little girl sat upon the doorstep of her home in Philadelphia, Penn- 
sylvania, eating her bowl of bread and milk. 

Now and again the mother and father heard their child's voice saying, "Thee must 
keep on thy own side. Thou hast had enough." 

Wondering what the child was talking about, the two went quietly to the door. There 
sat the child lightly tapping the head of a large snake that was eating his share of the 
little girl's breakfast. Again the little voice asked, "Will thee not keep on thy own side?" 

The father's arms went quickly about his little daughter. The mother's eyes filled 
with tears when she saw the object upon which her own gentle teachings were being 
practiced. ' 

This dictation contains capital letters for titles, time of day, and quota- 
tions. If the children have not had these topics, omit until some future time. 

The teacher said, "I wish every one to stay after school to-night." Fierce looks passed 
from one to another. The cause of the punishment was unknown. Every one was 
wondering why. A feeling of uneasiness was very noticeable on each face. 

At last three o'clock came. The teacher announced, "Colonel Smith has brought his 
teams and will take us for a ride." "What a surprise," they shouted, as they climbed into 
the wagons. 

Capitals Continued. 

For the method of presenting the work see p. 120. These exercises con- 
tinue the work given before. Make the statements concrete. General is a 
title. Therefore, General begins with a capital letter. Civil War is the 
name of a well-known event. Therefore, Civil and War begin with capitals. 
Democrats is the name of a political party. Therefore, Democrats is written 
with a capital letter. 

Go over the sentences orally first, justifying the use of the capitals. 
Afterward put the sentences on the board without capitals. Have the 
children copy, supplying the proper capital letters. 

Use the sentences for dictation at the board. Have the children write 
sentences containing titles, names of political parties, corporations, etc. 

Tell the children that few abbreviations for titles of honor should be used. 
It is better to write them out. However, the following abbreviations are 
used. Each must be followed by a period : Mr., Mrs., Jr., and Sr. If M.D., 
A.B., or P.H.D. is used it follows the name, is separated from it by a 
comma, and' is used as here written. 

, 1. George Meredith, the English novelist, died in London on the 18th. 

2. The Turkish Government has ofPered the Jews a large body of land for their new 

Jewish nation. 

3. "The Senator couldn't ask for a more satisfactory answer," she said. 
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4. At Tulare the First National Bank has let the contract for what will be one of 

the finest buildings in the San Joaquin Valley. 

5. The first carload of cherries sold in New York this season was from Sacramento 

Valley orchards, and brought over $4,000. 

6. The representative of the Republican party was made president at the last election. 

7. The Torrid Zone is bounded on the north by the North Temperate Zone and on 

the south by the South Temperate Zone. 

8. The Young Women's Christian Association has made it possible for many poor 

young women to earnt a living. 

9. She wore a dress of china silk imported on a Chinese steamer. 

10. The Democrats twice elected Cleveland president. 

11. While in Washington we shook hands with President Taft. We visited Congress, 

which happened to be in session. The Senate was listening to an address by 
General Brown. The clerk was reading a bill to the House of Representatives. 

12. The bill passed the Senate, but was held up in the Assembly. 

13. Each of the Assembly Districts contains from forty thousand to eighty thousand 

inhabitants. 

14. "Are you insured in the Hartford Fire Insurance Company?" he asked. 

15. The Board of Supervisors passed a bill prohibiting gambling in many forms. 

16. The trip down Bright Angel trail at the Grand Canyon of Arizona is very thrilling. 

17. The decision of the Supreme Court removed all doubt of the man's guilt. 

18. The Republican party voted to repeal Rule No. 12. 

19. His ambition was to go to Congress. 

20. He called in Doctor Jones to attend the sick ma;n. 

21. At the commencement exercises of the University of California James Bryce, 

P.H.D., delivered the address. 

22. Yesterday Reverend Brown preached a sermon on justice. 

23. The topic of discussion between Professor Brown and Doctor Smith was the 

Negro Problem as interpreted by the North and the South. 

24. From 1870 to 1890 the Democratic party was in control of New York City. 

25. From the time of the immigration after the Great Famine up to 1880 the Irish 

peasants lived in a solid mass from the East River to Five Points. 

26. As a result of the persistent efforts of the Police Department, criminals were 

forced to leave the city. 

27. In Haverland. one of the ancient Dutch towns on Long Island, there stands a 

little cottage. 

28. The Liberator is the oificial organ of the League of Justice. 

29. The engineer went to Toledo on the Lake Shore Railroad to attend their convention. 

30. This fall Emperor William will visit King Edward in London. 

31. Utah is the home of the Mormons. 

32. In New Orleans are found Creoles, negroes, and mulattoes. 

33. Every morning at breakfast he reads the Call. 

34. "Is the Crisis a story of the Civil War?" she asked. 

35. The battleship Oregon was built at the Union Iron Works in San Francisco. 

36. There are two houses in Congress, the Senate and the House of Representatives. 

37. They honored Senator Brown by making him chairman of a responsible committee. 

38. California has two senators and eight representatives in Congress. 

39. The State Legislature convenes in Sacramento every two years. 

40. The State Legislature of California consists of the Senate and the Assembly. 

41. A congressman must be at least twenty-five years of age, and a senator thirty 

years of age. 

42. "I shall be a senator when I grow up," said the boy. 

8. This dictation contains capitals for proper names, holidays, titles, and 
corporations, and pairs of words. If the children have not had these topics, 
omit until some future time. 

It was a gala week in Summerville. The first time in local history there was to be 
a festival. To-day the big parade was to take place. Flags and bunting had been hung 
out along the line of march. It reminded a visitor of the Fourth of July. 

Governor Brown was to ride at the head of the procession. The Board of Super-- 
visors, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Board of Education were to be in line. 
Much time had been devoted to the float to carry the Goddess of Liberty and her 
attendants. 

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These were uot the only features. There were to be floats representing the different 
Industries of the surrounding country, decorated carriages and automobiles, and citizens 
in line. The Grand Army veterans had their place. The Native Sons, too, were to be 
there. Last, but not least in importance, were all the school children dressed in white, 
carrying flags, and marching two by two. 

Capitals and Review op Pairs of Words, Capitals, Possessives, Quota- 
tions, Commas in Series and Apposition, City and State, Dates, Abbrevia- 
tions, Contractions, Numbers. 

1. Boston, Mass., one of our oldest cities, was founded by the Puritans in 1630 on a 

small peninsula between the Charles River and the harbor. 

2. Because of the large shipment just received from the Orient, there will be a sale 

of china silk, surah silk, Japanese bric-a-brac, and Oriental rugs Tuesday, 
February 3d, at two o'clock. 

3. "We visited the Tower of London," said Miriam, "the oldest building used by the 

government in England." 

4. Here may be seen Queen Victoria's crown, containing three thousand beautiful 

diamonds. 

5. "The steamer Mongolia was due in the Orient," said the captain, "before the 

storm arose." 

6. July 4, 1776. the Declaration of Independence was signed in the State House in 

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

7. "There, too, from May to September sat the Convention which framed the Con- 

stitution of the United States," said Jack. 

8. "Don't you think the English Pilgrims' voyage in the Mayflower is one of the 

most interesting stories in history?" asked the boy. 

9. The captain of that ship received a fine gold medal from the Emperor of Germany. 

10. The Secretary of Agriculture, who will go to Southern California to investigate 

the blight of the walnut tree, arrived in the City June twenty-third and will 
leave to-night on the 7 :30 train. 

11. Mr. Roosevelt, ex-president of the United States, is admired by both Democrats 

and Republicans. 

12. "My parents' desire is to go west to Alaska," said Ethel, "and come back through 

the Southern States." 

13. The Stars and Stripes as we now have them were adopted by Congress June 14, 

1777. 

14. "The East, the West, the North, the South," said the speaker, "are again united 

and prosperous." 

15. The Sequoia National Park of 161,280 acres and the General Grant National 

Park of 2,560 acres were established by act of Congress October 1, 1890. 

16. The next year, March 16, 1901, the Legislature appropriated $250,000 to buy 

3,800 acres of forested land in Santa Cruz and San Mateo counties, south of 
San Francisco. 

17. This grove is known as California Redwood Park, and is controlled by a board 

consisting of the Governor, the Secretary of State, the Attorney-General, and 
the State Forester. 

18. In Egypt the year is divided into three well marked seasons, summer, flood, and 

winter. 
" 19. The summer season extends from the first of April to the end of July. The flood 
season begins the first of July and lasts till the end of November, when the river 
overflows its banks. 

20. God, the Infinite One, the Father, the Holy Ghost, the Most High, our Lord Jesus 

Christ are all names of the Deity. 

21. Since the time of Edward I, all the sovereigns of England have sat in the great 

Coronation Chair in Westminster Abbey to be crowned. 

22. "Yes, he is, without doubt," said Captain May, "the ablest man in the state of 

New York." 

23. "How many times," asked Philip, "was George Washington made President of the 

United States?" 

24. The Knights of the Round Table flourished in the reign of King Arthur. 

25. "A message from the President and also ex-President Roosevelt was read in the 

Senate last Wednesday," said Senator Carter. 

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26. "The Turks' reinforcements reached Constantinople just in time to greet the new 

Sultan," said Harry. 

27. The sword girded on the new monarch Mohamed V is the ancient sword worn bj' 

thirty-four of his ancestors, twenty-eight of them since Constantinople was 
conquered. 

28. The East India Company and other companies sent out many men to establish 

trading-posts in America. 

29. "In London, England, one's attention is always called to the place where the 

Christians, Roman Catholics at one time, and Protestants at another, were 
burned at the stake," said Lieutenant Gray. 

30. Martyrs" sufferings have made this place sacred. 

31. The Children's Crusade was led by a French peasant lad, who felt that he was 

commanded to lead a crusade of children. 

32. The French children numbered about thirty thousand. 

33. Many fallen knights now lay about their king, who had lain on the battle field 

since morning. 

34. Decoration Day, May 30th, the veterans and soldiers, too, gathered at the National 

Cemetery to pay their respects. 

35. "The North and South suffered greatly during the Civil War," said the general. 

36. The English king, Richard the Lion-hearted, was the central figure among the 

Christian knights of the Third Crusade. 

37. "My men," said Canute, "there is only one King who is all powerful, and it is He 

who rules the sea and sky." 

38. We must leave the City at 7.20 a. m. in order to meet their mother at the Oakland 

Mole. 

39. Lincoln worked hard to keep the states of the United States together, for he knew 

that the Union could not exist half slave and half free. 

40. Greenland is in the northern part of the Western Hemisphere. 

41. We visited the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md.," said Admiral 

Nelson, "and then took a trip to the United States Military Academy at West 
Point, New York State." 

42. Some gipsies, going north, passed here about the beginning of fall. 

43. Two members of the Board of Education visited our school last week. 

44. For many years people have expected a civil war in Russia. 

45. "The colonel, being a very sensible man, referred the matter to the general," said 

the lieutenant. 

Additional Sentences. 

1. The President and Postmaster-General sent for the postmaster of our town and 

the secretary of our society. 

2. The Spanish ships were destroyed by the English, assisted by their French allies. 

3. He said, "The West is prosperous and I shall leave for there next summer." 

4. "Who took May's little brother to the Cliff House Admission Day?" asked Sarah. 

5. He said to King Arthur, "God bless you. Sir King, and all the Knights of the 

Round Table." 

6. Then Lancelot gave him the order of knighthood and bade him godspeed. 

7. He went to the Arctic Zone and brought back some Arctic ivory. 

8. Cooper's Medical College has become part of Stanford University. 

9. "Did you see Aunt Jane and her nephew, my cousin, at the Alaska- Yukon Exposi- 

tion?" she asked. 

10. The government tug Relief went down the bay to meet the Korea. 

11. The United States of America is the vast territory reaching from the Atlantic 

Ocean to the Pacific and from Canada on the north to Mexico on the south, as 
well as the great land of Alaska and the many islands beyond the seas. 

12. At the time of the French and Indian War there were vast areas of land in 

Virginia and throughout the South and West, of which the ownership w^as in 
doubt and the location not even known. 

13. Many students of history are wondering what development will result from, the 

meeting of the Occident and the Orient. 

14. Mr. Smith went to the Far East and returned w^ith china silk, India ink, and 

tropical plants. 

15. We steamed into the Bay of Naples on a beautiful summer afternoon. It is a 

bay with which our own San Francisco Bay is often compared. 

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16. New York City, in the state of New York, is the metropolis of our country. 

17. The Senator just referred to was sent to the Legislature because we believed 

him to be a true representative of the people. 

18. The visitors from the East were charmed with Golden Gate Park. They called 

our Park a paradise. 

19. Governor Gillett, with the oj^rnors of our neighboring states, met their council- 

men to discuss matters of common interest. 

20. "What should the duties of a board of education be?" asked Mr. Graham. 

21. The State Board of Education convened last week at Sacramento. 

22. Our government is a federal government. 

23. The federal government of our United States is similar to the monarchial govern- 

ment of Great Britain and Ireland. 

24. The Revolutionary Period was a trying time to Washington, our first president. 

25. The government demands obedience to its laws. 

26. At high school we studied algebra, botany, grammar, English, French, and German. 

27. In nearly every country of the world Catholics, Protestants, and Jews are permitted 

to worship without molestation. 

28. Civilized nations are spreading education among pagan and heathen nations. 

29. There was a great flood in the Mississippi Valley. 

30. The Galveston flood brought much suffering to the people of Texas. 

31. The railroad often emploj's coolies. 

This dictation contains capitals for proper names, proper adjectives, 
mountains and countries, the writing of numbers, quotations, commas 
between words in a series, and pairs of words. If the children have not had 
these topics, omit until some future time. 

About a hundred years ago a great general named Napoleon Bonaparte was leader of 
the French army. He wanted very much to take his army across the Alps Mountains 
into Italy. He sent some men to look at the passes. When they returned, he asked, "Is it 
possible to cross the Alps?" Then one of them replied, "It may be possible, but — •" 
"Let me hear no more," said Napoleon. ■ "Forward to Italy." 

He had a large army of sixty thousand men. The long line of soldiers, horses, and 
cannons stretched for twenty miles. When they came to a steep place; Napoleon gave 
the order, "Charge !" Thus they moved onward, and in a short time they were over the 
Alps and marching on the plains of Italy. — Reicritten from Fifty Famous Stories. 



QUOTATIONS. 

Eeview the sentence on page 127. Put on the board the following sen- 
tences : 

1. "I shall try to do as you say," said John, as he turned away. 

2. "Do you think it will rain?" she asked, as she looked toward the south. 

How much of the first sentence tells what John said ? As he turned away 
is an added thought, but not a part of the quotation. It is separated from 
the rest of the sentence by a comma. 

Take up the second sentence in the same way. 

Put the following sentences on the board without quotation marks or 
commas. Have the children supply them, telling why : 

1. "Hurry, or we shall get caught in this storm," cried Tom, as he started for the door. 

2. Edith, can you tell me anything about a swallow's wings? asked the teacher, 

looking out of the window. 

3. "Aunt Clara," asked Rob one day. as he hurried breathlessly into the house, "what 

bird is that hammering on the oak tree?" 

4. "Bring the man before me," shouted King Lear angrily to his guards. 

5. "I have come," said Jason, looking into the king's eyes, "for the Golden Fleece." 

6. "Don't let my father's horses run through the gate," shouted John, when he saw 

the baby fall. 

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7. "On Decoration Day the soldiers and veterans, too, gathered at the statue of 

Washington to pay their respects to the dead," wrote Rob, then closed his book. 

8. "Never mind," said the old duck, as he turned away, "the other duckling is 

graceful enough." 

9. "If you will only spare my life," said the fox, as he looked up at the farmer, "I 

will never steal again." 
10. "Oh, I can't trust you," he replied, and he despatched him at once. 

Put on the board these sentences : 

1. "Where are you going? May I go with you?" he asked. 

2. He said, "It is a nice day. Let's go to Golden Gate Park." 

3. "Did you study your lesson last night?" he asked. "I studied mine." 

Call the children's attention to the fact that quotations are often made up 
of several sentences. If the sentences are not interrupted by said he, etc., 
the quotation marks are placed at the beginning of the first sentence and at 
the end of the last one. Sentence No. 3 shows the punctuation of a two- 
sentence quotation interrupted by he said. 

4. "Are you taller than James? Then you may stand at the head of the line," said 

the teacher. 

5. "She went then on foot rather than wait and go on the train," said her sister. 

"She will be very tired." 

6. "This year's vacation will be six weeks long," answered John. "Where shall 

we go?" 

7. "I shall take you East," replied John's mother. "Will you enjoy that?" 

8. "Shall we visit eastern Ohio? Cousin Jack lives there," said John. 

9. "It's a cold morning," said the grasshopper, "very cold." 

10. "Do you prefer to live in the North or the South?" she asked. 

11. Shakespeare says, "Her voice was ever soft, gentle, and low." 

Quotations and Eeview. 

1. "I suppose," he said, "that she thought I was a beggar. Did you think so, too?" 

2. "Thank you," said the lady's sister, as she reached out her hand to the boy 

"You've, been very kind." 

3. "Won't you help me?" asked the old man, as he approached Professor Steel. 

4. "Isn't it time," he asked, "to begin to do better?" 

5. When they entered the door the boys' mother said, "A telegram says your uncle 

has just arrived from South Africa." 

6. He cried out, "Who's there? What's the matter?" 

7. " 'Twas a famous victory, for the soldiers hadn't expected the attack," declared the 

general. 

8. "I should like to go to the fair," said the boy, "but the fare is too much." 

9. "Do not sit in your seat," said the teacher, "but rise when you are spoken to." 

10. "Do you know if these two books are interesting?" asked James. "I should like to 

read them." 

11. "Ascend yonder winding stair," said De Bracy. "It leads to his apartment. Wilt 

thou accept my guidance?" he added, in a submissive tone. 

12. "Now, I hope," said Charles, laying down his pen, "that I shall hear from him 

soon." 

13. "Why do you lay a paper over the fruit?" asked Alice. "Isn't it better to let it 

lie in the sun?" 

14. "Did you come here to hear him sing?" asked David, greeting his friend. 

15. "That's mine," said the boy, laying the book upon the table. "It's not theirs." 

16. "Where have you laid the paper that was lying here?" asked Ruth. "Upon which 

shelf did you say?" 

17. "If I lay it here now will it be lying here when I return?" she asked, turning 

toward the table. 

18. "Don't let him go. Haven't you any one else to send? I'm afraid the surf is too 

strong for him," pleaded the boy. 

19. "It's not hers, it's theirs," said Ralph, jumping up. 

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20. "Doctor Gray died Februarj- 14, 1864, which was during the Civil War," responded 

Colonel Bray. 

21. "Caruso was here about four years ago." said Mrs. Porter. "Did you hear him 

sing?" 

22. "What is the trouble?" he asked. "Trouble?" repeated the officer. "Don't you 

know you're driving about aine times as fast as the law allows?" 

23. "Although you may laugh, "said Caesar, "he has reason to be proud. I would 

rather be the head man of a village than the second man in Rome." 

24. "There is a sign on the door that reads, 'Walk in,' " said Francis' father. 

25. "If any one has lost his purse he may find it here at the close of the meeting," 

announced the president. 

Quotations (all kinds). 

26. "May John go riding with me?" asked Fred. 

"Yes," said John's mother, "if you come home before it is dark." 
"Yes, we shall be home early," said the boys, as they rode off. 

27. "Why," asked Hazel's teacher, "do you study at night? Have you no time after 

school?" 

28. "Come, John," shouted Fred, "let's go into the fields. Don't you think we can 

find some flowers there?" 

29. "Well, I'm going now," said Alice. "Good-night." 

30. "From what islands do we get the best coffee?" asked the teacher. "Can you tell 

me, Ann?" 

31. "The dye has discolored the new material," said the clerk, "so that no one will 

buy it. It seems too bad that the whole piece is destroyed." 

32. "Recalled to life," he muttered, as he walked beside the old Dover mail coach. 

"What could have been meant by such a message?" 

33. "We arrived at Boston, Mass., at half past three, July 1st," said Grace, "and or 

the third of July we left at two o'clock for Jamestown, New York." 

34. The lady asked, "Is your sister at home? May I see her?" 

35. "Will you go to the Park this afternoon?" asked James. "It is a fine day." 

36. "We must fight it out," said the general, riding through the ranks. 

37. "No, you didn't think," said the teacher. "Will you ever learn to think?" 

38. "Yes," quietly responded the man, "I suppose I was, now that you speak about it." 

39. "Can you guess what I have?" the child cried gleefully. 
"Something fine, I am sure," said the man. 

"Look !" she cried, and the street rang with her happy laughter. 
"What are you going to do with it?" asked the man when he saw that the little 
hand contained a penny. 

40. "Can you write these sentences?" asked the boy. "They are very easy." 

41. "There goes the man," he cried, starting to run. "Catch him." 

42. "I'm looking for an honest man," said Diogenes. "Where can I find one?" 

43. "Where do their parents expect to be February 22, 1910?" asked Tom, turning 

to his friend. 

44. "The third of February is the day set for the picnic," said Fred. "Will you go 

with us? We shall have a fine time." 

45. The telegram said that Jane's father would not arrive until October ISth. 

46. "This letter," said Eleanor, "is dated June 3, 1905. Have you not seen it before?" 

47. "Holland is a queer country," said James. "It is sometimes called the land of 

dykes and canals." 

48. The boy said, "Some day I shall be a member of the English Parliament. When 

that time comes I shall be the King of England's most loyal subject." 



POSSESSIVES. 

By this time the children should be fairly familiar with writing the pos- 
sessive singular and plural of common nouns. The writing of nouns to 
show joint and separate ownership should not be very hard. Put on the 
board the names Mary and Jane and the word mother. Tell the children 
that Mary and Jane are sisters. To write a sentence telling about their 

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mother, put the possessive sign on the last one only. Then write on the 
board: Mary and Jane's mother is visiting in Ohio. 

Put two more names on the board. Tom and Harry. Say that Tom has 
many books. Harry has, too. Then write the sentence Tom's and Harry's 
books are very beautiful. 

Go over several of the following sentences, having the children decide 
whether each one owns an object, or whether they own the object together. 
Give them the names joint ownership and separate ownership. Use the 
language form: Mary and Jane are joint owners. Therefore, Jane only 
takes the sign of ownership. Tom and Harry are separate owners. There- 
fore, both Tom and Harry take the sign of ownership. The thing to 
determine first is : Does each one own an object by himself (separate owner- 
ship), or do they own it together (joint ownership) ? Drill on this first, 
then on putting in the sign. 

1. John's and Henry's boats are painted blue. 

2. May's and Gladys' rooms are in different parts of the house. 

3. Sisters' and brothers' hats hung side by side. 

4. Men's and boys' clothing is sold here. 

5. Ladies' and children's suits were given away after the San Francisco fire. 

6. Shall I give you the boy and girl's address? 

7. The women's and men's reading rooms were very well arranged. 

8. Goldberg and Bowen's store is on Sutter street. 

9. Mason and Dixon's line was established in . 

10. Was the horses' and cows' food given them yesterday? 

11. Webster's and Worcester's dictionaries are both used in the United States. 

12. Where are Smith's and Brown's new stores? 

13. Park and Sons' coffee is the best in the world. 

14. The governor's and superintendent's policies were given at the committee meeting. 

15. Ladies' and misses' dresses were sold at Brown and Co.'s store. 

16. Dot your i's and cross your t's. 

17. The house was all at 6's and 7's. 

POSSESSIVES AND REVIEW. 

1. She said to me very quietly, "The girls' books are not in their desks." 

2. "The King of England's palace is in London," said James' sister. "Did you visit 

it while in England?" 

3. Mary asked, "Did it occur in Washington's, Jefferson's, or Adams' administra- 

tion?" 

4. Women's, children's, and infants' coats are sold at King's and Jacobs' stores. 

5. "Which do you like the better, Dickens' or Scott's novels?" asked James. 

6. "My daughter's going need not prevent their coming," said their mother. 

7. Is it half a mile's walk from here to the station?" asked the traveler. 

8. "Am I too late?" asked the boy. 

9. The fairy tale tells us that the heroes' lives were given to save the king's daughters' 

jewels. 

10. "That house is the doctor's," said John's father. "You must stop there on your 

way to Smith, the bookseller's." 

11. "Wasn't the Children's Crusade led by a French peasant lad?" asked the boy, look- 

ing up from his book. 

12. "In Normandy," said the tourist, "even the butchers', shops are gay with bright 

flowers." 

13. "It is Mr. and Mrs. White's intention," said he, "to buy a six thousand dollar 

automobile for their son." 

14. Harold said, "This morning's returns showed twenty-nine killed, forty-four 

wounded, and twenty-six missing." 

15. As Fred's father had gone farther on his way, their efforts to make him hear were 

in vain. 

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16. "It is necessary for a beginner to do two days' work for one day's pay," said the 

manager, turning abruptly toward his desk. 

17. "The stems of the lilies and roses were broken by last night's storm," said the 

florist, as he pointed to the torn bushes. 

18. "It's not hers, it is theirs," cried the boy, jumping up. 

19. "This year's ladies' hats are^not trimmed with so many birds' feathers as last 

year's," said Jane. 

20. "To-morrow," said George, "will be Washington's Birthday. Will you go fishing 

with us?" 

21. "His mother's opinion meant more to him," said she, "than any one else's." 

22. "Yesterday the men's lawyers pleaded for the jury's mercy," said Mr. Brown, 

looking up from his paper. 

23. Germany's history is more interesting to Gladys and James' sister because she has 

been there for a six months' vacation. 

24. "I should like to protest," said Mr. Black, "against Mr. Jones' doing my work." 

25. "Were we told to buy Brown's or Harvey's language?" asked the boy. 

26. "The judge pronounced Mrs. Jones' and Mrs. James' roses the largest and finest," 

said Doctor Long. 

27. Ferdinand and Isabella's desire was to carry out Columbus' plans. 

28. The legend tells us that Achilles' life could not be taken unless the arrow's point 

struck the soldier's heel. 

29. "Doctor White," said Dick, trembling with agitation, "you're very kind. I know 

how much you valued 'Browning's Poems.' " 

This dictation contains capitals for proper names, names of places, and 
months of the year, abbreviations, and divided quotations. 

Two boys were on their way to school. "Fred," asked one of them, "have you ever 
been in New York?" "Yes, Allen," answered Fred, "I went last April with Mr. Smith." 
"Did he show you the Brooklyn Bridge across Bast River?" "Yes, but I suppose you 
know that East River isn't a river at all." "Of course I do," said Fred. "It's only a 
strait connecting Long Island Sound with the Atlantic Ocean. I crossed the Hudson 
River when we went to Jersey City." "You must have learned a good deal of geography 
on that trip," said Allen. 

This dictation contains possessives, contractions, divided quotations, and 
pairs of words. 

"Here they come, bag and baggage," shouted Tom, as the boat neared the pier. It 
was, indeed, a merry greeting and the boys were more than glad to see each other. "Just 
think," cried Jack, "there will be no more studying nor errands for two whole weeks. 
Won't we have fun, though?" 

The merry group hurried to their aunt's home, and on the way eagerly planned their 
sports for the two weeks' visit. 

This dictation contains commas for the name of a city followed by the 
name of a country, possessives, contractions, and divided quotations. 

London, England, is known for its dense fogs. On a very foggy night a gentleman 
lost his way home. He heard footsteps approaching. 

"I am lost," he said. "Can you tell me where I am?" 

"Where do you wish to go?" asked the stranger. 

The gentleman told him. 

"That is quite near. Trust yourself to me, and I will lead you to your door," said the 
stranger, leading the way. When they arrived at the house, he accepted the gentleman's 
thanks. 

"London's fog doesn't bother me," said the stranger. "I am blind." 

Laddie is a beautiful Irish setter. He likes to lie on the steps in the sunshine. After 
he has lain thjere for some time he stretches himself and goes for a walk. 

One day he lay down in front of the Open fireplace. He laid one paw too close to the 
fire. Before he could pull it away it was badly burned. 

The poor old fellow came to me and laid his paw in my hand. I bandaged it for him 
as well as I could. To show how grateful he was, he laid his head in my lap. I hardly 
need to say that he has never lain so near the fireplace since. 

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This dictation contains abbreviations, divided quotations, contractions, 
possessives, and pairs of words. 

Learning to Write With Ink. 

"O mama," cried little Rose, as she ran into the house. "To-day our teacher let us 
write with ink for the first time. It was such fun." Mrs. Lewis stopped her work to 
look at her little girl. She certainly had been writing with ink. Her fingers were black, 
an ink spot was on the top of her nose, and there were two marks on her white apron. 
It was too funny and the good mother just sat down in a chair and laughed. It seemed 
as if she couldn't stop. The blots told the whole story. 

Next mother saw her little one sitting at the large desk trying her best to manage a 
clumsy pen. Then, as she dipped it into the ink, somehow Rose's tiny fingers slipped in. 
Then the ink was spread from face to clothes. "Yes," said her mother, as she prepared 
to make Rose white again, "I know all about it, dear." Rose wondered how she could 
know. Finally, she asked, "Mama, were you peeking through the door when we were 
writing?" Mrs. Lewis smiled and said, "I was a little girl once myself." 

This dictation contains capitals for titles and proper adjectives, posses- 
sives, divided quotations, and pairs of words. 

A hundred years or more after the time of King Alfred there was a Danish king of 
England named Canute. 

King Canute's great men and officers were always praising him. One would say, 
"You are the greatest man that ever lived." Another would say, "King Canute, there is 
nothing in the world that dares to disobey you." 

The king was a wise man, and he greM' very tired of hearing their foolish words. 

Once when he was by the seashore he thought he would teach them a lesson. "Am I 
the greatest man in the world?" he asked. "Oh, king," they cried, "there is no one so 
mighty as you." "Do all things obey me?" he asked. "Command it and it will obey," 
said one. 

"Sea," cried Canute, "I command you to come no farther." But the tide came in just 
as it had always done. 

It came up around the king's chair. Then King Canute said, "Learn a lesson from 
what you have seen." — Rewritten from Baldwin^s Fifty Fatuous Stories. 

This dictation contains capitals for proper names, names- of places, and 
sections of the country, possessives, abbreviations, time of day, divided 
quotations, and pairs of words, 

Grandpa's Boyhood. 

Alice and Jessie's home was a large farm near Santa Rosa. The little girls' grand- 
parents were too old to live alone, so Mr. and Mrs. White cared for them. The dear old 
couple loved their grandchildren very much. 

After school Alice and Jessie liked to harness their pony and take them for a drive 
far down the shady road. Then back they would come in time for dinner at five o'clock. 
The children's parents always watched them as they drove up the path. They liked to 
watch their two daughter's smiling faces. 

Every Sunday afternoon all gathered around grandpa. They were always ready to 
hear his interesting stories. 

"To-day," began grandpa, one Sunday, "I'm going' to tell you about my boyhood." 
Alice clapped her hands. Impatient Jessie said, "Please begin right away, grandpa, for 
I am sure this story will be even better than the last." The old man patted his little 
girl's head and began. 

Correction of Errors. 

There is another class of errors more difficult to correct than the class 
dealt with before. It seems necessary for the children to know something of 
technical grammar before they can choose for themselves the proper form 
to use. The agreement of the subject and the predicate in number illus- 

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trates this class of errors. It seems almost a hopeless task to correct such 
mistakes as they occur, for there may be • as many errors as there are 
subjects and predicates in the English language. 

This does not mean, however, that the children must use five hours of 
their time every week for three years to learn all the intricacies of technical 
grammar. There are a few points necessary, however. 

Predicates, subjects, and complements should be thoroughly taught. A 
method of doing this can be found in A Course of Study in Grammar, Burk 
& McFadden. 
. Nearly all the mistakes occur in the use of the verb he. 

Few, if any, mistakes are made in the present tense. In the past tense, 
mistakes occur in the second person, but provision has already been made 
for that in another lesson. Mistakes also occur in the third person, both 
singular and plural. Nouns do not change their form to show person, so 
no time need be lost. The children must know that was is used with a 
singular noun, and it^ere with a plural noun. 

If they can select the predicate and subject, if they can tell whether the 
subject is singular or plural, if they can tell that was is used with the 
singular one and were with the plural one, then practice, and that alone, 
will make them proficient. 

To illustrate : In the sentence, The doors of the Mission was very large, 
the children must find the predicate, then the subject. They must decide 
that the subject, doors, is plural. They know that were is used with a 
plural subject. Therefore, the sentence is incorrect. Was should be were, 
and the sentence should read. The doors of the Mission were very large. 

In this connection they must learn also that does is used with a singular 
subject, and don't with a plural one. The language form is the same as 
that used with the verb he. 

Correct the errors. 

1. "Mr. Jones don't live in San Francisco, California," said the girl. 

2. John and Tom is going to Chicago, 111., next Wednesday. 

3. They wasn't with us at Berkeley last April. 

4. The Andes Mountains is in South America. 

5. The gardens of the Alhambra was very beautiful. 

6. Those ladies in that room teaches our class spelling. 

7. The men in this office stops work at five o'clock. 

8. The boys who was here yesterday lives in New York City. 

Faulty Sentences. 

Method. — There is no mistake made so often by children beginners in 
composition writing as that of running several thoughts into one sentence 
with no marks of punctuation. This is especially true when the second 
thought seems to grow out of the first, as. It was lovely the water was very 
clear. 

It is always better to begin with short sentences. A good device is to limit 
the sentences to one line in length. However, if there are a few words 
over or under one line, nothing need be said. In the above sentence it is 
much simpler to make the correction with a period after lovely and a capital 
letter for the. 

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To present a lesson of this kind, put several groups of sentences on the 
board just as the children have written them. Have each group read aloud. 
Then have the children tell, in as good sentences as they can make, each 
thought that the author wished to tell. Sentences selected from the class 
that is at work are much better than those selected from any school by any 
author. 

Requiring short sentences sometimes leads to putting in a period and a 
capital letter for the clause of a complex sentence. Only drill will help 
the children to overcome this. Some such sentences are added. Teachers 
will find many more while correcting compositions. 

1. It was lovely the water was very clear. 

2. It is a beautiful geyser it is called Old Faithful it shoots up every sixty-five 

minutes. 

3. We went to see the Fleet we took our lunches with us. 

4. In front of a Dutch house on the porch, you will find a line of shoes you can 

tell how many are in the house by the number of shoes. 

5. Alice was startled she unbolted the door. 

6. Two men came in they were wrapped in blankets. 

7. They had many good things to eat there were roast turkey with apple sauce, and 

the celebrated mince pie. 

8. He went to the cow stable he saw some hooks he grabbed one and ran back to the 

house. 

9. The poor bear found himself in the pantry he looked around and saw a piece of 

cake he began at once to eat it and forgot his fear. 

10. He was about to go to bed he looked out once more and saw the signal fire of the 

Indians. 

11. We had just come home from a party it was nearly twelve o'clock. 

12. John's mother was reading a story it was nearly bed time. 

13. When the ship landed. The men gave the Indians beads and trinkets. 

14. One day when John's mother was reading a story. There came a knock at the 

door. 

15. In a little fishing village. On the coast of Cape Cod. A small family lived. 

16. When these boys saw their mother walking about the garden. One of them said 

to the other. "Isn't she beautiful'?" 

17. While we were camping near Shasta. The boys killed a bear. 
IS. When I was a little girl. We lived near the ocean. 

19. Once upon a time in the far North. There was a giant living in a cave. 

20. As we turned a corner in the road. There stood my father's horse quietly eating 

grass. 

Adjectives for Adverbs. 

Use the following sentences for daily concert drill : 

I did my work well. He felt very badly. 

The boat moved slowly. She feels ill. 

■ I have learned to skate well. He did the work quickly. 

I rode home safely. He won the race easily. 

They treated him very well. . The rose smells sweet. 

They treated him very badly. The car stopped suddenly. 

They move very quietly. She appears well on the stage. 

Answer the following questions : 

How did you do your work? How did he feel? 

How did the boat move? Good morning. How are you?* 

How do you skate? How does the rose smell? 

How did they treat him? How did the car stop? 

How did they move? How does she appear on the stage? 



* "Nicely, thank you," is wrong. "I am well," is a correct answer. 

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If the children have had some technical grammar — if they are familiar 
with nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs, they may be given a 
standard by which to decide for themselves which form is correct. It is a 
mistake to think that when they know how to tell which is correct that they 
will do so. It is only by constant drill in which the ear becomes accustomed 
to the correct sound that any marked results may be looked for. It makes 
little difference whether the children know the reason or not. The children 
must know that (1) adjectives can not modify verbs, adverbs, or other 
adjectives, and that adverbs can not modify nouns or pronouns; (2) that 
a number of words have adjective and adverbial forms, the adverb usually 
being formed from the adjective by adding ly; (3) that in the case of an 
attribute complement the adjective modifies the subject, and if the word 
modifies a verb, then it is an adverb. 

Focus 'the attention of the child upon this question. Is the subject or 
predicate modified? If the subject is modified then an adjective must be 
used. If the predicate is modified, then an adverb must be used. See A 
Course of Study in Grammar, Burk & McFadden, page 76. 

Have the subject and predicate of the first sentence given. "Is the word 
well an adjective or an adverb in form? Does well modify the action of 
doing or does it tell some quality of I? The children must then be able to 
state that well is adverbial in form, that it modifies the action of doing, 
and hence is correct. 



*1. I did my work well. 

2. He spoke very distinct. 

3. Mary plays good. 

4. He came very prompt. 

5. He is a real good boy. 

6. They treated him very rough. 

7. He felt sadly. 

8. She looks beautifully. 



9. He is very bad off. 
*10. The boy acted badly at the party. 

11. He looked kind at me. 
*12. He sat silent. 

13. He sat quiet in his seat during the 

lecture. 

14. He writes good. 

*15. The house seems nice. 



Like. 



The same may be said about the correct use of this word as has been said 
about the confusion of adjectives with adverbs. 
Give conscientiously the daily drills : 



She works like a Trojan. 

She sings like a bird. 

She looks like me. 

I feel as if I could cry. 

It sounds as if a train were coming. 



They do not look like us. 
The baby cried as if she were hurt. 
He ran as if something were after him. 
They wear dresses just like ours. 



Ask the following questions : 

How does she work? 
How does she sing? 
Whom does she look like? 
How do you feel? 



How does it sound? 
How did the baby cry? 
How did he run? 



* Starred sentences are correct. 



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Complete the following: 

like gTeen walls , as if they were leaves 

as if they were afire like a flower 

like these like a good boy 

like a whirlwind as a horse does 

like silver as the wolf ran 

as if he were angry as if it would rain 
like a snow storm 

A statement that will help the children decide in many cases whether to 
use like, as, or as if iS this : A predicate follows. Therefore, as or as if is 
used. 

Apply the statement to the following sentences : 

1. We can not play in so little a yard like the girls have. 

2. They do not sleep on pillows like we do. * 

3. It sounded like a train was coming. 

4; Many boys have not an uncle like you have. 

5. It seemed to me like I heard some music on the street. 

6. It seems like the boat is moving. 

7. I feel like I could cry. 

8. They don't punish children now like they did then. 

9. Dick's mate was an old horse that looked like he did not get anything to eat. 

10. The baby cried like she was hurt. 

11. He ran like something chased him. 

12. She sang just like a bird sings. 

13. The house looked like very untidy people lived there. 

14. The Indians do not live in houses like we do. 

15. The little boy on the horse bounced like apples do in a basket. 

Fill in the blanks in the following sentences : , 

1. The people in the large cities of Holland have many customs ours. 

2. May's mother made her a white dress mine. 

3. The ship looked a large bird as it glided over the sea. 

4. an arrow the bird flew through the air. 

5. The Japanese people are not at all the English. 

6. The climate in Los Angeles, California, is not at all that in San Francisco. 

General Review Sentences. 

General Eeview. 

1. "It seems," said John, "as if you have read Hiawatha many times." 

2. _"May I divide the apple between the boys?" asked John, as he pointed to the two 

boys standing on Waller street. 

3. "The President -of the United States has over seventy millions of people watching 

his movements," he wrote. 

4. The steamer Ventura is the Oceanic Steamship Co.'s boat, and sails on the Pacific 

Ocean. 

5. I bought the dress at Weinstock & Lubin's on Fillmore street, San Francisco, 

California. 

6. Two thousand men had gathered when the secretary of the club read the news. 

7. "We are reading Rip Van Winkle by Irving," said she. 

8. Men's and boys" suits are on sale at Hastings' store to-morrow. 

9. "I can't go," said Gladys' mother, "until the train arrives." 

10. "We are nearing the enemies' camp," said the general, when he saw the flag. 

11. It's but two houi's' journey from here. 

12. "Aren't you afraid that the contract is too large a one?" asked the carpenter. 

13. The committee after a long discussion set the meeting for Wednesday, February 12. 

14. Jack's brother will leave El Paso, Texas, on the 9.45 a. m. train. 

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15. Please seucl to Mrs. A. Jones, 1765 Market street, San Francisco, California, the 

Ladies' Home Journal, Woman's Home Companion, and Munsey's Magazine. 

16. Mr. James White spent last summer at the Ocean House, Long Branch, N. Y. 

17. The boat leaves for Honolulu, Wednesday, June 2, at 9.15 a. m. 

IS. "The Girls' High School," announced Dr. Scott, the principal, "will open Monday, 
August 2, 1909, at 8.30 a. ^." 

19. Have you read Dickens' Tale of Two Cities? 

20. Thanksgiving is always the last Thursday in November. 

21. Some of Whittier's poems were printed in raised letters for the use of the blind. 

22. He knew that the mail would arrive from the Orient on the steamer Mongolia, 

Tuesday at 3.30 p. m. 

23. The girls' dresses were brought to them by their brother from Paris two years ago. 

24. The children named some tropical fruits that they had eaten in Southern California. 

25. This morning the steamer arrived, bringing some beautiful silks, perfumes, and 

other Oriental things. 

26. The United States' fleet sailed into the bay of San Francisco on its trip around 

the world. 

27. "Stonewall" Jackson and "Fighting" Joe Hooker were two generals in the Civil 

War. 

28. In the Middle Atlantic States there are many large cities. 

29. The Pilgrims wanted to worship God in their own way. 

Miscellaneous. 

30. Have you read "The House of Seven Gables," by Hawthorne? 

31. He described it as follows : Go three blocks west on Main street, turn to the south 

two blocks, then in the third house to the right will be found the things you 
wish to buy. 

32. The children wrote compositions on "My Friend Jack," "Over the Seas," "A Plea 

for Puss," and "How I Spend My Saturdays." 

33. There is much meaning in the following : Books are embalmed minds. 

34. On the poet's tombstone in Westminster Abbey I read the words, "O rare Ben 

Jonson." 

35. "Dot your i's and cross your t"s," said the teacher. 

36. Webster's and Worcester's dictionaries are both good. 

37. "Do you think Socrates' questions are hard to answer?" asked Mr. Williams. 
"No," answered he. "They are very easy to answer. In answering one is con- 
vinced immediately that his arguments are faulty." 

38. Firm and wise in his judgments, Washington was a natural leader. 

39. The Romans, having conquered the world, were unable to conquer themselves. 

40. While on a visit to Washington, Captain Brown will visit the Capitol Building 

and the White House. 

41. May Day, Mary and Ruth went to the Presidio. 

42. When the English Pilgrims went to Holland they were very poor. 

43. Thomas', Charles', and Ada's fathers went to see the president last Wednesday," 

said Mrs. Hale, "but his decision was the same." 

44. "The lion's roar," said Gladys' brother, "was heard in every part of the circus last 

Saturday." 

45. "Come, Edith," said Mary, "let's go to Goldberg and Bowen's." 

46. The slaves were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation during the Civil War. 

47. The customs of the Middle Ages seem very strange to us now. 

48. The graduates of a university usually wear caps and gowns on Commencement Day. 

49. During the French Revolution the guillotine was commonly used. 

50. Nathan Hale was a hero of the Revolutionary War. 

51. Martin Luther was a leader during the Renaissance. 

52. During the Dark Ages the priests were the only people who studied. 

53. The Fall of the Bastile caused great rejoicing in France. 

54. The Thirteen Colonies grew up during the Colonial Period. 

55. The Battle of Gettysburg lasted for three days, and cost the lives of many men. 

56. As we journeyed north we met many people coming south. 

57. The South had its heroes as well as the North. 

58. Manj' people go to Southern California to spend the winter months. 

59. We travel east from San Francisco to reach New York. 

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60. Barbarous tribes live in the northern part of Africa. 

61. He spent his last vacation in the East. 

62. A great quantity of grain is raised in the Central States. 

63. Negroes vi^ork in the cotton fields of the Southern States. 

64. The right hand side of a map is always east. 

65. In the West there are many large cattle ranches. 

66. The Galveston Flood occurred in the year 1902. 

67. Many lives were lost in the San Francisco Disaster of 1906. 

68. The Crusades took place in the 10th century. 

69. I crossed the Mississippi River when I came to Stockton, California. 

70. Write to Marshal Field and Company or to the Macmillan Company, New York, 

New York. 

71. The sun rises to-day in the east at 6 a. m. and sets in the west at 6 p. m. 

72. We are going to a committee on arrangements Wednesday at 5.20 p. m. 

73. Mr. Smith is worth .$4,500. 

74. School closes at 3.15 p. m. 

75. At 2 o'clock we shall have recess. 

76. There were four hundred fifty people at the ball game. 



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APPENDIX. 



11— BUL. 9 



HANDBOOK TO ACCOMPANY ENGLISH LESSONS, 
BOOKS ONE AND TWO. 



These pages are added to the Bulletin, with the hope that they may be 
helpful to the teacher in her use of "Lessons in English, Book One." 

The text as planned is for the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Grades. As a 
rule, four lessons in composition and one in grammar or language are 
allowed for each week's work. This is a very poor arrangement, for several 
reasons. 

In the first place, the order is wrong. More time, in the beginning, should 
be given to learning the forms, and less to writing compositions. It is 
clearly impossible for a child to combine sentences into a paragraph until 
he can write simple sentiences well. He must know how to spell the words, 
how and when a new sentence begins, and how and when it closes. Many 
of the careless composition habits come from attempting regular compo- 
sition work before any habits in formal language have been acquired. 

To illustrate from the text : The first lesson requires the pupil to combine 
into a composition of many paragraphs, sentences involving the following 
language forms, some of which have not become habits under the present 
methods of teaching by the time high school has been reached: 
A capital letter for : 

The beginning of a sentence. 

The names of people, buildings, dogs, days of the week, races of people. 
For a title (Dr.). 
A period for : 

Ending of a declarative sentence. 
Abbreviation. 
A comma for : 

Parts of a compound sentence connected by and and iut. 
Series of words, series of phrases. 
Non-restrictive adjective clause. 
Non-restrictive word. 
A semicolon : 

To separate the parts of a compound sentence in which commas have 

been used. 

To be sure, this is only a model, but children are more likely to write long 

sentences than short ones, so the model after which a child patterns his first 

composition work should have short, simple sentences. The style at first 

may be short and choppy, but it is much easier to remedy that later than 

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it is to break up the habit of writing pages and pages in one long sentence, 
the parts of which are connected by "ands" and "buts" and ''thens." 

One can see at a glance that the work of the previous grades has in no 
way prepared the child to write a composition after this model. It is in 
this principle that the book fails completely. The author has not realized 
that a language form must have become a habit before the child can give 
his attention to subject-matter. Then, too, certain other matters, such as. 
heading his paper, writing the title, leaving a margin, making a neat looking 
page, must be matters of habit before any extensive original composition 
work can be done successfully. 

This lesson is followed by three very much like it, and on the fifth day, 
after having written all of these sentences, the children are given a defini- 
tion of a sentence, and the fact that a sentence begins with a capital letter. 
Have they been writing their sentences in the first four lessons with small 
letters ? If not, they do not need to be told in this lesson how to do it. 

This brings us face to face with another fault — that of attempting to 
teach the habit of writing correct language forms through teaching defini- 
tions and rules. 

One can go out any day and watch a carpenter mark out and fit two 
boards together at an obtuse angle, but the carpenter knows no definition 
for an obtuse angle. He has learned to do the thing, and that is what 
counts. 

A little girl watches her mother as she sits sewing. Soon the child, too, 
wishes to sew, but her mother does not give her a definition of sewing ; but 
instead, a needle and thread, and the little girl learns to sew by sewing. 

The definition habit is a relic of the times when examiners were sent out 
to find out how much the children knew. Give the definition for this, that, 
and the other was a short, easy form in which to send out the questions. 
Not being familiar with the facts of the case, the examiners took it for 
granted that, if a child knew the definition, he could do the thing, and so 
our text-books have taken up half their space giving definitions and rules 
to learn, hoping that the child, through memorizing them, might acquire 
the habit of writing correctly. 

Another fault must be noted — ^the forms in common use are not given 
first, nor is enough drill given to fix these forms, before others are begun. 

In the text the following is the order of the facts : 

1. Definition of a sentence, its beginning. 

2. Definition of a declarative sentence, its ending. 

3. How to begin the first word of a line of poetry. 

4. An apostrophe for the contraction of amid, never, there is. 

5. A comma to separate a clause, out of its natural order, from the rest 
of the sentence. 

6. A comma to separate two clauses hot joined by and. 

7. A comma to separate a non-restrictive participial modifier from the 
rest of the sentence. 

8. A comma for the omission of a w^ord. 

9. An exclamation point after two expressions, the second of which begins 
with a capital letter. 

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10. Periods at the close of two declarative sentences. 

The facts from three to ten occur in a dictation exercise. The children 
are not given the reasons for these forms, but are supposed to learn them 
through use. It is not the method in this case which is criticised, but the 
giving of an exercise containing forms which are clearly beyond a Third 
Grade child's comprehension or need. 

It seems quite unnecessary to point out the fact that the number of forms 
from the above list actually used by children in the Third Grade is very 
small. Knowing the definition of a sentence will not help them to remember 
to begin it with a capital letter, neither will the knowledge of the definition 
of a declarative sentence give them the habit of putting a period at the end. 
They are certainly not writing poetry at this age, nor using such con- 
tractions as 'mid or ne'er. These uses of commas are not all mastered by 
high school graduates, and exclamatory sentences are written only when 
demanded by the teacher. The only forms then actually used are two— a 
capital letter at the beginning of a sentence and a period at the close. 

So much for the first three lessons. The next ones are no better— defini- 
tion of an imperative sentence, its ending; definition of an interrogative 
sentence, its ending; capital and period for yes and no when used alone as 
answers to questions, and followed by a comma when used with other words. 
Imperative sentences are very little used, if at all, at this time ; the habit 
of putting a question mark after interrogative sentences can not be acquired 
in any other way than by much practice ; yes and no are little used except 
when dragged into dictation exercises. They might much better give way 
at present to fixing good sentence habits. 

If the book is to be useful, much pruning, re-arrangement, and additional 
drill are quite necessary. 

When Part II of the text is reached, or by the beginning of the Fourth 
Grade, the work in grammar replaces the work in language forms, the 
author, in common with many others, feeling that the reason why will in 
some way or other help in the actual doing of the thing. 

Most people who have worked thoughtfully with children will agree that 
in the early grades, children do not often understand the reason why for 
language forms, but if told this reason, will commit it to memory in very 
much the same way that they do the fact itself. Children learn how to 
speak correctly before they know anything about the structure of the 
language ; they can also acquire the habit of writing correctly without the 
grammar of the language. If the stenographer puts the apostrophe in its 
proper place when she is writing the letter, the employer will not ask her if 
she knows that the word is a possessive noun, singular number, neuter gen- 
der, and used as an adjective in the sentence. And while the stenographer 
may have learned all this in her early school days, if she has not acquired 
the habit of correct use, her services will soon be dispensed with. 

Because -the grammar lessons are neither necessary nor practical, at this 
age of the child, in gaining correct habits of written language, they are 
omitted from this handbook and other work suggested in their places. 

To sum up, there are three faults in the text : First, stress is put upon 
composition work before the habit is acquired^ of writing correct language 

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forms ; second, an attempt is made to teach these forms through the teaching 
of definitions and of technical grammar •, and, third, there is an utter disre- 
gard of the principle of usefulness in teaching certain forms first. 

With these aims in view, — the formation of correct language habits by 
actually speaking and writing the forms, giving first those forms that are 
most used, and applying these forms in the composition work, — the follow- 
ing suggestions and substitutions have been prepared to accompany 
"English Lessons, Book One." 

This book can not be begun without some preparation. If the work sug- 
gested by the Bulletin for the First and Second Grades has been well done, 
the children will be able to take up this work with comparatively no diffi- 
culty. If that work has not been done some preparation is a necessity. 
The work outlined for the First Grade is particularly adapted to that grade 
and often fails in the Third, but may be given to a Second. It is suggested 
that if nothing has been done in the First and Second the work be begun 
in the Bulletin with that outlined for the High First and Second Grade. 
Omit many of the devices for action, or at least spend very little time on 
them. Omit also some of the stories. 

While this preparation will not be as thorough as it should be, at the 
same time some habits must be acquired, or the child will be seriously 
handicapped all through his language course. 

1. Page 11. 

Exercises 1-4, Bulletin, p. 20; and "Second time over," p. 26. 
Exercise I, Text, p. 11. 

Exercises II, III, or IV, Text, for oral work, or omit. 
Exercise V, Tsxt, omit. 

Directions. — Copying simple sentences that make up a paragraph or a 
story is a good exercise to aid in acquiring the habit of leaving a good 
straight margin, of paragraph indentation, and of making the proper 
beginning and ending of a sentence. 

If used for this purpose, Lesson I, with a few changes, is an excellent 
exercise to follow the lessons suggested from the Bulletin. 

The long sentences with commas should be broken up. Instead of the 
semicolon, use a period and make a new sentence. 

Lesson I may also be used as a composite story — that is, a story made up 
by the teacher and children together. At the same time may be taught the 
proper way to write the title and its place on the page, also the indentation 
of the paragraph, and the margin. (See Bulletin, p. 25.) 

The teacher must prepare her questions carefully, for upon her questions 
depends the kind of sentences the children give. Some child in the class 
may be chosen as the one about whom the description will be written. The 
teacher asks the questions, the children reply in complete sentences. The 
best answer is written on the board. In this way the whole story is obtained. 

The questions will be something like this : What is your full name ? How 
old are you ? What is your height ? How much do you weigh ? What color 
is your hair? What color are your eyes? (Give me the last two answers 

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in one sentence.) What game do you enjoy playing more than any other 
game ? "Who plays with you on Saturday afternoon ? What books do you 
like to read ? What school do you attend ? Etc. 

After the whole story is on/fche board, the children are asked to copy it. 

2. Page 13. 

Exercises 1, 2, 3, 4, Bulletin, p. 27. 
Exercise III, Text, p. 14. 

Exercises I, II, IV, Text, as oral work, or omit. 
Exercise V, Text, omit. 

Directions for Exercise III. — Show the children how and where to write 
the title, which may be ''Last Thursday," or any day you choose. Tell 
them not to write every sentence on a new line, but to make one paragraph. 
If they have not learned how to do this, as they probably have not, from 
the first exercise, have the questions answered. Write them on the board, 
so the children can see how it is done, then erase, and have them answer 
these questions: 

Tell where you went last week. Who went with you? How^ did you go? 
What did you take with you ? Tell three things that you saw there. What 
did you hear? What did you do? What did your friend do? When did 
you come home ? What did you tell your mother about the day ? 

3. Page 15. 

Exercises 1, 2, 3, Bulletin, p. 45. 

Exercises II, HI, Text, p. 15, as oral work, or omit. 

Exercises IV and V, Text, omit. 

4. Page 16. 

Exercises 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Bulletin, p. 41. 
Exercise I, Text. 

Exercises II, III, IV, Text, as oral work, or omit. 
Exercise V, Text, omit. 

Directions for Exercise I. — Have the children answer the questions, write 
the answers on the board in a paragraph, have the story read aloud, under- 
line the unfamiliar words and have them studied, then erase and have the 
children write the answers to the questions. The following questions are 
more definite than those of the book : 

On what day does your mother bake bread? Do you watch her? Does 
she ever call you and send you for yeast ? How much money does she give 
you ? Where do you go for it ? When you bring the yeast back, what does 
your mother do with it? What does your mother get first? What does 
she put into the flour ? When does she put in the yeast ? Does she put in 
any more flour after she has put in the yeast? AVhere does she set it? 
What makes it rise? How long does she leave it? Into how many loaves 
does she make it ? What does she bake it in? "Do you like warm bread ? 

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5. Page 18. 

Exercises 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, Bulletin, p. 47. 
Exercises I, II, III, IV, Text, as oral work, or omit. 
Exercise V, Text, omit. 

6. Page 20. 

Exercises 7, 8, 9, Bulletin, p. 47. 

Exercises I, II, III, IV, Text, as oral work, or omit. 

Exercise V, Text, omit. 

7. Page 21. 

Exercises 1, 2, 3, Bulletin, p. 48. 

Exercises I, II, III, IV, Text, as oral work, or omit. 

Exercise V, Text, omit. 

8. Page 23. 

Exercises 1, 2, 3, 4, Bulletin, p. 49. 
Exercises III, IV, Text, as oral work, or omit. 
Exercises IV and V, Text, omit. 

9. Page 25. 

Exercises 5, 6, 7, 8, Bulletin, p. 49. 
Exercises II, IV, Text, as oral work, or omit. 
Exercises I, III, V, Text, omit. 

10. Page 27. 

Exercises 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, Bulletin, p. 50. 
Exercises I, II, III, IV, V, Text, omit. 

11. Page 30. 

Exercises 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, Bulletin, p. 51. 
Exercises I, II, III, IV, Text, as oral work, or omit. 
Exercise V, Text, omit. 

12. Page 32. 

Exercises 1, 2, Bulletin, p. 47. 

Exercises I, II, III, IV, Text, as oral work, or omit. 

Exercise V, Text. 

13. Page 34. 

Exercises II and V, p. 36, and V, p. 39, Text. 
Exercises I, III, IV, Text, as oral work, or omit. 

14. Page 37. 

Exercises 1, 2, 3, Bulletin, p. 52. 

Exercises I, II, III, IV, Text, as oral work, or omit. 

Exercise V, p. 40, Text. 

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15. Page 40. 

Exercises 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Bulletin, p. 53. 
Exercises I, II, III, IV, Text, as oral work, or omit. 
Exercise V, Text, ha^been given under 14. 

16. Page 42. 

Exercise 6, Bulletin, p. 53. 

Exercise V, Text, p. 26. 

Exercise III, Text, p. 28 (except poetry). 

Exercises I, II, III, IV, Text, as oral work, or omit. 

Exercise V, Text, omit. 

17. Page 45. 

Exercises 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, Bulletin, p. 54. 
Exercises I, II, III, IV, Text, as oral work, or omit. 
Exercise V, Text, omit. 

18. Page 47. 

Exercises 1, 2, 3, 4, Bulletin, p. 55. 

Exercises I, II, III, IV, Text, as oral work, or omit. 

Exercise V, Text, omit. 

19. Page 51. 

Exercises 5, 6, 7, Bulletin, p. 55. 

Exercise I, Text, p. 52. 

Exercises I, II, III, IV, Text, as oral work, or omit. 

Exercise V, Text, omit. 

20. Page 52. 

Omit. 

21. Page 55. 

Exercises 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Bulletin, p. 56. 
Exercises I and II, Text. 
Exercises III, IV, V, Text, omit. 

22, 23. Pages 57-59. 

Exercise V, p. 58, and V, p. 61, Text. 

Copy the story in Text, p. 59, for practice in hyphens. 

Omit all other exercises. 

24. Page 61. 

Exercises 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, Bulletin, p. 57. 
Exercises I, II, III, IV, V, Text, omit. 

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25. Page 63. 

Exercises 1, 2, 3, p. 59, and 1, 2, 3, 4, p. 59, Bulletin. 
Omit all exercises from Text. 

26, 27. Pages 65-67. 

Exercises 1-10, Bulletin, p. 60. 
Omit exercises from Text. 
Exercise V, p. 79, Text. 

The work on quotations as outlined in the book will not be successful. It 
is not definite enough, and there is not enough given. Use instead the work 
of the Bulletin, p. 68 to p. 74. The story of "The Fox in the Well," Text, 
p. 67, is a good one, if simplified. As it is, the expressions are too difficult 
for a Third Grade. 

This work will take about three weeks, one lesson of twenty minutes being 
given each day. 

Follow this with Devices for Review, p. 66, which will take about three 
weeks more. 

Text-lesson V, p. 71 ; V, p. 75 ; V, p. 77 ; V, p. 80, will make another week's 
work. 

Follow this with the exercises on "There are" and "There were" from 
the Bulletin, p. 62, and conclude with the general review from the Bulletin, 
p. 67 to p. 68. 

Third Grade children do not have much use for letter-writing, but they 
can become familiar with the form by copying notes. 

Put on the blackboard the note on page 76 of the Text, in this form : 

50 Broadway, San Francisco, Cal. 
Nov. 20, 1902. 
Dear Grandpa: 

School closes next month, and then I shall go to see you. 
I hope the cherries will not all be gone before that time. 
Your grandson, 

George Mooee. 

Show the children where to begin the heading. The street, city, and state 
may all be written on one line. Call attention to the fact that the date is 
not written directly under the first line, but to the right, so that it will end 
very near the name of the state. Call attention to the punctuation. No 
reasons need be given. 

Give special attention to the margins and to the position and punctuation 
of the closing of the letter. Have this letter copied, correct it, and return 
it to the children to re-copy. This should be repeated until the children 
learn the form perfectly. 

Have the children help you write letters, using the suggestions in exercise 
31, Lesson III; exercise 32, Lessons I, II, IV, etc. Put in the heading, 
salutation, and closing at first, and have them copy the whole letter. After 

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they become more familiar with the form, let them supply these themselves, 
simply copying the body of the letter. 

If the children write fairly well, exercise 34, Lesson II,, might be assigned 
without any help from the teaqfcer. ^ 

PART II. 

This section of the book deals with the technical work in grammar. As 
was said in the introduction, the mistake has been made of thinking that 
the habit of writing and speaking correct language forms may be acquired 
by knowing the reasons for using these same forms. The author believes 
this entirely wrong. She also feels that the first written composition work 
should be as nearly an application of the language form being studied at 
that time as possible. To illustrate, if. the possessive singular were the 
subject for the week's work, then the composition for that week should 
contain words used in the possessive singular. It is often difficult to get 
suitable subjects that will contain the desired form and not too many other 
forms which have not yet been acquired. 

Part II does not attempt to carry out this line of work. It also spends 
too much time on the application of language forms, which is composition, 
and little or none on the forms themselves. It is absurd to think that a 
Third Grade child could acquire all the habits of writing suggested in Part I 
without continual review during the following year, in fact, during the 
remainder of his school course. 

A new course has been planned, based on the Bulletin, with such exercises 
from the Text as seemed feasible, and with compositions from the Text, also, 
arranged as nearly as possible to apply the language forms. 

Series I. 

Exercises on Verbs from the Bulletin, p. 76. 

Follow these with exercise 56, Lesson I, Text; exercise 58, Lesson I; 
exercise 60, Lesson I; exercise 62, Lesson I; exercise 64, Lesson I. Treat 
these lessons in the same way as those of the Bulletin. If this takes too long 
and becomes tiresome, omit for a time, then come back to it again. 

Series II. 

Exercises 1, 2, 3, 4, Bulletin, p. 81. 
Lesson V, Text, p. 39. 
Lesson V, Text, p. 41. 
Lesson IV, Text, p. 148. 
Lesson II, Text, p. 113. 

Directions for Using Lesson I, p. 91. — Have the children write the answers 
two abbreviations, Mrs. and Dr. Talk the lesson over with the children, 
having them give the woman a name. Suggest that she may be anxious to 
catch the horse to go for the doctor (give him a name) for her little girl 
who is ill. Have them answer the questions in writing, then write the story. 

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Series III. 

Exercises 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, Bulletin, p. 81. 

Lesson V, Text, p. 167. 

Lesson I, Text, p. 100. (Fill in blanks.) 

Lesson I, Text, p. 91. 

Lesson I, Text, p. 96. 

Lesson I, Text, p. 98. 

Direction for Using Lesson I, p. 91. — Have the chldren write the answers 
to the questions, then change their sentences to the plural form. Do the 
same with Lesson I, p. 96, and Lesson I, p. 98. 

Series IV. 

Exercises for Review, Bulletin, p. 82. 
Lesson I, Text, p. 84. 

Directions for Using Lesson I. — 

The Rabbit. 

As this is the first purely descriptive lesson that the children have had, 
it will be better for the teacher to use it as a composite story. After the 
children have been helped with a few of these lessons they will be able to 
write by themselves, following the directions in the book, especially if the 
lesson is discussed orally with the children first. 

Tell the class that in talking about the size of an animal we usually 
compare it with some other animal that is better known. ' ' We will compare 
the rabbit with the cat. Who can tell me how large the rabbit is, compared 
with the cat ? ' ' The children will give various answers. Write the one you 
like best on the board. 

"Now we will talk about his ears. Are they large or small when com- 
pared with the ears of the cat ? What word can you think of that will tell 
about his ears better than large? (Long.) Look at the ends of his ears. 
What word tells how they are at the end?" (Pointed.) Write these two 
words on the board as they are given. Then have the children tell about 
his ears in one sentence. 

"Peel his coat. Tell me about it. What color is it? Tell me in one 
sentence about his coat. " 

"Look at his front legs; his hind legs. Are they just alike? What can 
you say of his front legs ? his hind legs ? Tell about them in one sentence. 
Let us use while instead of and to make this sentence a little different from 
the other. Who can give me the new sentence?" 

' ' Has the rabbit a tail ? Is it large or small ? Some people call this sort 
of a tail ' dumpy. ' Give me a sentence about his tail using both words and 
beginning with Ms tail." 

A description something like this Mall be obtained : 

The rabbit is about the size of a cat. His ears are long and pointed. His coat is 
white and soft. The front legs are short, while the hind ones are long. His tail is 
short and dumpy. 

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In the day time the rabbit stays in his hole, and in the evening comes out to feed. 
They sometimes injure plants and vegetables by eating the leaves. They kill trees too 
sometimes, by eating too deep into the bark. 

We like rabbits for pets because they are kind and gentle. It is easy to get food for 
them, also. 

After this story has been written upon the board, have it read through 
by some child, then dictate it to the class. 



Series V. 

Exercises 1-12, Bulletin, p. 84. 
Lesson III, Text, p. 110. 

Directions. — Make this a lesson in which their shall be introduced as 
many times as possible. Have the children underline it when it is used, 
and count the number of times it is properly used. Add such questions as 
these : 

How did they get their mother 's consent to go ? How did they get their 
lunch ? Where did they put it ? How did they get their bait ? Where did 
they go? How did they anchor their boat? Where did they eat their 
lunch ? What did they tell their parents about the day ? 

Series VI. 

Exercises 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, Bulletin, p. 87. 
Lesson I, Text, p. 107. 
Lesson I, Text, p. 102. 

Series VII. 

Exercises 1, 2, 3, 4, Bulletin, p. 87. 
Lesson I, Text, p. 129. 
Lesson I, Text, p. 144. 

Series VIII. 

Exercises 1, 2, 3, Bulletin, p. 88. 
Lesson I, Text, p. 102. 

Series IX. 

Exercises 1, 2, 3, 4, from the Bulletin, p. 89. 
Lesson I, Text, p. 86. 

Using "The Squirrel" as the subject, develop this lesson in the same way 
as the one. on "The Rabbit." Compare him in size with the rabbit instead 
of the cat, also compare his ears with those of the rabbit's. Write the story 
on the board, sentence by sentence as before, have it read, then erase it, and 
put on this outline and have the children write from it. 

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The Squierel. 




size 




coat 


I. . 


ears 


head 




body 




tail 


II. 


home 


III. . 


food 



Series X. 

Exercises 1-6, Bulletin, p. 90. 

Lesson III, Text, p. 73 (first four sentences). 

Lesson II, Text, p. 127. 

Series XI. 

Exercises 1-5, Bulletin, p. 91. 
Lessons I and II, Text, pp. 107-108. 

^ Series XII. 

Special Verbs, Bulletin, pp. 92-94. 
Lesson I, Text, p. 141. 
Lesson I, Text, p. 118. 

Series XIII. 

Exercises 1-5, Bulletin, p. 95. 
Lesson V, Text, p. 66. 

Series XIV. 

Exercises, Bulletin, pp. 96-98. 

Series XV. 

Exercises 1-8, Bulletin, p. 98. 

Lesson V, Text, p. 170 (omitting rules). 

Lesson I, Text, p. 173 (dictate sentences only) 

Lesson I, Text, p. 174. 

Lesson II, Text, p. 147. 

Series XVI. 

Exercises 1-7, Bulletin, p. 99. 

Series XVII. 

Test Sentences. Bulletin, p. 102. 
Lesson V, Text, p. 64. 
Lesson I, Text, p. 126 (omit reasons). 

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Letter Writing. 

Children, as a rule, enjoy the hour assigned to letter writing, especially 
if thej know what they are to write about, and if the letters are actually 
given to and read by some meraber of the class. For this reason it is better 
to have an exercise every two or three weeks, rather than let it all run over 
until the end of the year. 

Especially interesting lessons can be made from advertisements cut from 
the paper and brought to class to be answered by the children. The teacher 
and class together should answer one, then the children copy the form. 
After this each child may bring and answer his own. 

Sending for catalogues, or for articles advertised in magazines, makes an 
interesting lesson. 

The forms and exercises suggested in the Text are very good. 



PART III. 

The work in grammar is continued, but as all this work, as well as that 
of the previous grade, is given, and in a much better way, in "English 
Lessons, Book Two," there is no use wasting the child's time doing it here. 

For commercial purposes, it may have been better to add the grammar to 
both parts, but for the purpose of teaching language it is a failure. 

The stories in Part III appeal especially well to children, but the lessons 
on grain, the orange, the lemon, the watch, and the peanut proved so 
uninteresting that they are better omitted. 

The stories to be finished are good, the suggestions for the Indian stories 
proved most interesting of all, and the pictures evoked as much interest as 
pictures do for a Fifth Grade. 



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HANDBOOK TO STATE SERIES TEXT-BOOK TWO. 



This book is almost entirely given over to the teaching of grammar, with 
some little drill in usage tacked on here and there. 

As has been said in the introduction, the author believes that knowledge 
of the reason for any usage does not imply that the liahit of usage will be 
attained. The aim of this Bulletin is to make habits of certain common 
language forms. Book Two offers very little help toward this goal. 

In the Text, the few usage drills follow immediately the grammatical 
reason, making the order in which the topics are taken up very undesirable 
from the point of view of language teaching. The order of presentation 
shoidd he the order in which the pupils use the topics. 

In the Appendix to this Bulletin, the author has selected from the State 
Text the available material, and has indicated with which lesson from the 
Bulletin it can be used to the best advantage. 

The State Text has no reviews worthy of the name. Many are in forms 
of questions such as, "Why should the plural of enemy and chimney be 
differently formed ? ' ' Isn 't the important thing to know the plurals of 
enemy and chimney? "Give the rule for the possessive case of nouns. 
What is the rule for the use of shall and will ? ' ' Even if the children could 
give correct replies to these questions, there is little likelihood that they 
could apply their answers to written work. 

Very few of the paragraphs under the title of composition can be used 
for dictation exercises. They are in most cases extracts from masterpieces 
for adult reading. The sentences are so long and involved that the children 
lose all thought of correct form in their attempt to get the words written. 

All suitable review exercises and paragraphs for dictation are here 
assigned for use after the completion of a topic in the Bulletin. Directions 
are given, as the Text uses technical terms in explaining. It will be easier 
for the teacher to give new directions than to try to tell what the gram- 
matical references mean. 

Fifth Grade. 
Capitals. 

Bulletin, pp. 120-122. 

State Text, p. 95, sentences 4-11. 

Dictate, or put the sentences on the board without the capitals and have 
the children write them correctly. 

Paragraphs for dictation. 

Text, page 226, No. 2 may be used for dictation. No. 3 on the same page 
may be used if rewritten. As it is, the sentences are too long, and not 
enough different language forms are introduced to make it worth while. 

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Sixth Grade. 

Possessives. 

Bulletin, pp. 122-124. 

State Text, p. 123. ^ 

Have the phrases made into sentences. Show what is meant by Exercise II, 
p. 124. Omit sentences 8, 9, 10, 11, 16. Exercise IV is a good one. Have 
the phrases made into sentences. 

Quotations. 

Bulletin, pp. 126-128. 

State Text, p. 91. The sentences may be copied if the children are weak 
in their primary work, or they may be put on the board without the 
punctuation marks. Give out paper and have the sentences correctly 
written. The Exercise at the top of page 252 is good. Use the first 
sentence to show the children what to do. 

Special Verbs. 

Bulletin, pp. 129-133. 

State Series Text, pp. 147-149. 

Omit Exercise I. Follow the directions given for the other exercises. 

Paragraphs for dictation. 
Bulletin, p. 122. 
State Series Text, p. 235, Exercise I. 



Seventh Grade. 

Commas in a Series. 
Bulletin, p. 135. 
State Text, pp. 290-291. 

Commas in Apposition. 

Bulletin, p. 135. 

State Text, p. 21, sentences 11-15. 

State Text, p. 284, sentences 1-8. 

Do not try to distinguish between restrictive and non-restrictive expres- 
sions, parenthetical or appositive. The children will only have to forget it 
later. Teach them to punctuate by having them write sentences and punc- 
tuate them. 

Capitals. 

Bulletin, p. 139. 

State Text, p. 8, sentences 1, 2 ; p. 13, sentences 3, 7 ; p. 18, sentences 1, 12 .; 
p. 21, sentences 12-16; p. 23, sentence 31; p. 57, sentences 6, 7; p. 65, 
sentence 9 ; p. 77, sentence 16 ; p. 80, sentence 6 ; p. 88, sentences 2-5 ; p. 120, 
sentences 1, 6, 9 ; p. 121, sentences 1-3, 8, 9 ; p. 154, sentences 7, 9, 22, 23. 

These, sentences contain capital letters. Use them for review or to give 
extra drill. 

Paragraphs for dictation. 
Bulletin, p. 136. 
Text, pp. 143, 263, 265, 278. 

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Text, page 238 contains some good work in contractions. Many of the 
sentences are too long. Rewrite, making all the sentences as simple as 
possible, before dictating to the class. 

Eighth Grade. 

Possessives. 

Bulletin, p. 145. 

State Text, p. 123. 

Sentences 4, 5, 6, 9, 11, 12 are good illustrations. Use sentences 8, 9, 10, 
11, 16, page 124, as directed in the Text. Have sentences made from the 
group of words under Exercise III, page 124, or put the words on the board 
without the possessive sign, and have them written correctly in sentences. 

Correction of Errors. 

Bulletin, p. 148. 

State Text, p. 158-164. 

The children may use the text, selecting the proper words and writing 
the sentences. The same sentences may be placed incorrectly upon the 
board and rewritten correctly by the children. 

Adjectives for Adverbs. 
Bulletin, p. 150. 
State Text, p. 210, Exercise III. 
Use according to directions in the Bulletin, p. 150. 

Paragraphs for dictation. 
Bulletin, p. 143. 
State Text, pp. 263, 265. 



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INDEX. 



THE REFEKENCES ABE TO PAGES. 

Abbreviations, &2, 81, 139. 

Am not, 32. 

Appendix, 155. 

Books, 95. . • 

Capitals, 26, 47-49, 88, 95, 120-122, 139. 

Commas, in series, 134 ; in apposition, 135. 

Contractions, 18, 32-34, 53, 136. 

Correction of errors, 106-109, 148-152. 

Daily drills, 5, 24, 44, 75, 76, 105. 

Dates, 51, 136. 

Doesn't, 'don't, 18. 

Devices for review, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 18, 19, 27, 30, 43, 45, 50, 55, 59, 64, 66. 68, 82, 87, 89, 

91, 94, 99, 101, 102, 108, 113, 115, 116, 117, 119, 120, 122, 125. 128, 133, 134, 

136-138, 141, 144, 146, 152-154. 
Eighth Grade Work, 143-154. 
First Grade Work, 5. 
Fifth Grade Work, 105. 
Fourth Grade Work, 75. 
Grading, 105. 

Handbook to State Series Text, Book One, 157-169. 
Handbook to State Series Text, Book Two, 170-172. 
High First or Second Grade, 24. 
I have no, 17. 
It is I— It was I, 16, 31. 
Learn, 93. 

Lie— lay, 60, 92, 129. 
List of Verbs, 30. 
Margin, 25. 
May I, 40. 

Paragraphs for dictation, 30, 43, 46, 73, 78, 118, 125, 138, 139, 140-147. 
Possessives, 98, 122, 145. 
Present Tense, 41. 
Questions, 37. 

Quotations, 68, 90, 126, 143. 
Rise — raise, 131. 
Second Grade Work, 24. 
Sentence, 20, 26. 
Seventh Grade Work, 133-143. 
Sit— set, 59, 93, 130. 
Singular and plural, 35, 36, 81. - 

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Sixth Grade Work, 119-133. 

Special Verbs, 56, 59, 60, 92, 93, 129-133. 

Stories 6 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 19, 31, 39, 40, 46, 48, 49, 52, 54, 58, 01, 62. 63, 64. 

65,' 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 77-80, 84, 85, 86, 89, 91, 92, 101, 109, 118, 119. 125, 135, 138, 

139, 140, 143, 147, 148. 
Teach, 56. 
Test sentences, 43, 71, 83, 89, 102, 113, 122, 125, 127, 134, 130, 138, 1.39, 141, 142, 1-52. 

Their, 84, 112, 113. 

There are — were, 21-22, 34, 62. 

There is— was, 23, 35, 63. 

That— those, 18, 87. 

Then — than, 117. 

This — these, 18. 

Third Grade Work, 44. 

Time of day, 57, 58. 

Too, 54, 110, 113. 

Two, 41, 46, 110, 113. - 

Verbs, 6-16, 28-30, 45, 76. 

Written Work, .first, 24. 



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SAN FRANCISCO 

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METHOD or TEACHING LANGUAGE 

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BY 



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BULLETINS Of THE SAN fRANCISCO STATE NORMAL SCHOOL 

Some eight years ago the members of the Faculty of the State Normal 
School at San Francisco undertook the preparation of detailed courses of 
study in each of the subjects of the elementary school. These courses were 
for the use of the student teachers and consisted of very specific and detailed 
instructions with, such explanations as seemed necessary. At first they were 
written upon cards and placed in library cases. Later they were printed in 
pamphlet form. Teachers in the public schools, learning of them, wished to 
secure them and as the demand has grown we have poiblished larger editions 
for general distribution. We have established a revolving bulletin fund, 
the sale of earlier editions providing for the publication of later editions. 
Up to the time of the great fire in 1906, twelve bulletins of this kind had 
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to write for any of it. We are now publishing revised editions marked in 
each case "New Series." 

The following courses of study (new sepes) have been issued up to date 
and are now ready for distribution : 

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State Series Text. By Effie B. McFadden. Price, postpaid, 30 cents. 
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Handbook to the State Series Primer and First Reader. By Alma Patterson. 

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the State Series Second, Third, and Fourth Readers. By Alma Patterson, 

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